Interviewer:
I was wondering about that. Did you have any feeling that married women were treated differently from single women?

Harriet Herring:
Well, wives certainly were.  Now, for instance, in the English department a friend of mine who was the most brilliant of her generation in her final examination and her work and all, she got a Ph.D. in English and couldn’t get a job at the university because her husband worked in the French department and was a full professor in the French department.  And she didn’t get a whack at the game until the shortage during the war.  And then they brought her in and she taught for a while.

- Harriet Herring, sociologist and researcher at UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science

Interview with Harriet Herring by Mary Fredrickson and Nevin Brown, February 5, 1976, Interview G-0027, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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