Nine brave lay women enrolled in the fall of 1962.

Bishop Spong said the report had been written by two priests and a lay woman.

But he particularly recommended mental prayer for his mixed audience of lay women and men.

The local hegumen, however, allowed her to live there much as a lay woman would.

In 1965, the college began admitting lay women, followed by men in 1972.

The Mount was now a four-year liberal arts college and opened its door to the first class of lay women in 1960.

From 1880 to 1890 came the substitution of lay women for nuns in many hospitals.

These were sometimes described as "sewing schools", and probably taught by lay women or nuns.

While a schoolgirl, she belonged to a Catholic lay women's group.

As a lay woman, she often aimed to show her readers how to love the Church.