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[atreic.livejournal.com]

Any info on applicants in that period?

I'd be very surprised if it was significantly different seven years before that.

We've already noted that the colleges went mixed in the 80s, with the last ones admitting women in 1988, it seems eminently likely to me that the gender balence in 1989 was radically different to the gender balence seven years later, as those were seven years of fairly interesting change. (I'm assuming your source of data for matriculating students ten years ago is that you were one, and you remember it being "about right", but if you have any better stats, that might help your cause)

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Well, being one, and also reading the prospectus and not being struck by any particularly surprising figures. Also in 1989 there were two women's colleges, rather than one. The last men's college *in Oxford* admitted women in 1985, so by 1989 that would have worked through the system, though some Oriel departments are still rubbish (routinely one woman per year got admitted for History). Another good piece of anecdotal evidence for the gender balance being fairly close in the late 80s is that it didn't come up as an issue in student politics, nor was it the primary argument made around men's colleges admitting women (yes, I'm a sad man, but I have in my time read the entire back catalogue of the Cherwell newspaper, at least since the early 70s).