by Christine Elizabeth Horansky

From the northern hemisphere, a bright cluster of stars known as the Pleiades is a brilliant fixture of the winter sky. In Greek mythology, these fiery seven sisters were the daughters of the titan god Atlas, cast into the heavens with their father as he worked to hold up the sky. In feminist lore, the Seven Sisters refers to a constellation of path-breaking women’s colleges founded in the 19th century at a time when the idea of educating women was considered radical. In the United States, the legacy of this sisterhood helped to pave the way for women’s education to go mainstream, opening up opportunities for women to forever change the trajectory of history.

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