"Women in the Strike" by Nancy Biberman from 'At Issue', May 13, 1968. A Barnard student discusses women's experiences during the campus ocupation and subsequent strike. After the April 30 bust, during which police arrested 111 Barnard students, the women involved took several opportunities to reflect on their experiences as female strikers. Here Nancy Biberman’s writes in May 13th edition of 'At Issue'. Frustration with chauvinistic and inflexible male colleagues served as a consciousness-raising experience for many striking women. Women radicals, disheartened with the systematic sexism they saw in the New Left leadership, used experiences like the Columbia 1968 protests to lay the groundwork for the far-reaching women’s rights movement that would emerge in the 1970s.