Women in Education
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Updated: 23 Oct 2017
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The Boston Latin School
was the first public school
in the USACatherine Brewer is the first women to earn a bachelor's degree.1800's Girls were allowed to attend town schools but at different times than boys.1700's Dame schools were taught by women
in their homes to mainly ready boys for town
school. Girls attended but were a minority.1800's Saw growth of co-education and
public high schools as well as female seminary
which prepared women to teach at
the growing number of Catholic Schools.1800's Women were heavily involved in commerce
and the family businesses.
Helped push the cause for equal rights.1700's Women establish themselves as teachers.Some public Universities allowed women attend
but in a limited fashion.Late 1800's saw the rise of women colleges,
like Smith, Mount Holyoke and Vassar.Despite the emergence of women colleges,
females are still pushed down the vocational path.Girls are required to take domestic sciencesWomen are still being channeled into three major career choicesTitle IX
Made it illegal to discriminate
based on sex.Women's Educational Equity Act
Paved the way for women
in STEM and athletics.Funding for WEEA is
drastically cut.First class graduates from training
school for nurses at New England
Hospital for Women and ChildrenHelen Magill 1st women to earn a PH.DThe Enlighten period prompts many debates about
relationship of the sexes.Jean-Jacques Rousseau says that sexes shoud be taught differently
based on out natural inclinations, and that a women's place is at
the head of the house hold.Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the
Rights of Women. Eloquently argues that women
deserve and even need a decent education.
Advocate for co-education.
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