Editing St Hugh's College, Oxford (section)

===Arrival of co-education===
In 1964, [[New College, Oxford|New College]] made a proposal for the admission of women to the men's colleges, and by the early 1970s several Oxford colleges had become mixed to a limited degree in this way. In 1979, two women's colleges, [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Lady Margaret Hall]] and [[St Anne's College, Oxford|St Anne's]], reciprocated by admitting men as undergraduates, while St Hugh's, which was already employing male college lecturers, decided to admit men as [[Fellow]]s. Resistance to full co-education was led by those who predicted that it would have severely negative effects on women academics and who saw other advantages in women's colleges. Admitting men as undergraduates was first proposed to the governing body in 1980, and there was a majority for it, but it did not secure the required two-thirds majority. The college principal, [[Rachel Trickett]], fought off full co-education at St Hugh's for some years, even taking her case to the national newspapers, and it was not finally agreed until 1986.<ref>Laura Schwartz, ''A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011'' (Profile Books, 2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=w5jp-ViL-J0C&pg=PT114 pp. 114–118]</ref> When Trickett retired in 1991, she was succeeded by the first male Principal, [[Derek Wood (barrister)|Derek Wood]].<ref>Schwartz (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=w5jp-ViL-J0C&pg=PT22 p. 22]</ref>

[[File:Oxford boathouse 1.jpg|thumb|St Hugh's boathouse (far left)]]
A new boathouse was constructed for the St Hugh's Boat Club (jointly with St Anne's and Wadham Colleges) between 1989 and 1990. This was followed by the construction of the Rachel Trickett Building between 1991 and 1992 at a cost of £3.4 million.<ref name="nl2011p12"/>