Doris Gregory is a Canadian author. She is noted for her role ending gender-based segregation in Canadian universities. Gregory studied English at the

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in the early 1940s. At the time, many courses were segregated by gender, with separate courses with female lecturers for female students. Gregory organized a group of women to "crash" one of the men's lectures. After being asked to leave the class, Gregory wrote a story about the incident for the student paper, the ''

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''. The story was republished by the

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, and the women were allowed to join the men's lecture. Gregory dropped out of university to join the

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in 1942, and was stationed in London and Farmborough. An autobiography about her experiences, titled ''How I Won the War For the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story'', was published by Ronsdale Press in June 2014.

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