Six years ago, in a feature article in a University of Connecticut alumni publication, Ethel Sorokin spoke of her days at UConn law school in the early 1950s. “There were four women and 65 men in my class,” recalled Sorokin, the first female editor of the school’s Law Review. “By my second year, only two women were left.”
There were no women on the faculty. But if Sorokin needed a female role model, she could look to an aunt, who was Hartford’s first woman allergist, and a mother who, Sorokin said, “told me that every woman should have a profession, even if she doesn’t use it.”
