I joined a sorority for community. Here’s why we need to protect spaces just for women

Sororities provide a sense of community and and help make campus smaller. I joined when I was in college and learned why we need to protect private spaces that are just for women.

As I got to know more sorority women from my chapter and across campus, I learned that many of them shared my motivation for membership: community with other women. I also learned that sorority membership was more diverse than stereotypes depict.   Hadley Heath Manning is director of policy at Independent Women’s Voice. 

Personally, I never planned to become a "sorority girl," and didn’t initially see the value of Greek Life. But in my case, I started to open my mind when, after my freshman year, I still felt lost in a proverbial "big pond" after growing up in a small town.