Letters: Poor training for breaking glass ceilings

ISSUE | GENDER EQUALITY

One-sided training

How can a commentary ("Don't just celebrate the 'firsts' ," Wednesday) seriously suggest that the best way to prepare young ladies for the challenge of breaking glass ceilings is to coddle them in the cocoon of an all-girls school? During their formative years, girls in such schools learn little, if anything, about how to work with, team with, or compete with boys. Consequently, when they leave the cocoon, the young ladies are, by definition, among the least well-prepared for the real-world task of breaking through glass ceilings.

|Paul Crotty, Bryn Mawr