Three female students are suing Yale University and its fraternities

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They said fraternity houses dominate a limited social scene around campus, one that needs to be wiped clean of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, reports CBS News' Meg Oliver.

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"Why do you want to be part of a culture that you're alleging promotes sexual misconduct?" Oliver asked.

"A fraternity party wasn't any of our first choice, but it was kind of the only choice for the first couple of months at school," McNeil said.

"It speaks to the way that fraternities dominate the social culture at Yale," Walker said, adding, "Those are the places that are open late at night. And those are the spaces that some of our friends are hosting parties in."

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"Fraternities offer a vast network of privileges to their members. They offer connections, they offer help networking," Singer said. 

"Some people might argue sororities do the same thing," Oliver pointed out.

"Sororities don't tend to have nearly the same connections as fraternities. Fraternities often have people, I think, in higher positions of power. And certainly on campus, they occupy a much higher social space," Singer said.

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