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  2. Hamilton College, Lexington was founded in 1869 as Hocker Female College. a private women's college affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. Its name changed in 1878. Its name changed in 1878. In 1889, Kentucky University (later Transylvania University), bought a stake in the school, taking total control in 1903.

  3. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It was the fifth-oldest women's college in the U.S. when it announced its closure in 2021. [1] 1842: Valley Union Seminary (now Hollins University) is the oldest chartered women's college in Virginia. 1844: Saint Mary's College (Indiana) was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It was the first women's college in the Great Lakes region. It ...

  4. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    The Virginia colony passes a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status. [2] 1664. Maryland declares that any Englishwoman who married a slave had to live as a slave of her husband's master. [3] 1718

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  6. Lila Meade Valentine - Wikipedia

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    Lila Meade Valentine (born Lila Hardaway Meade; February 4, 1865 – July 14, 1921) was a Virginia education reformer, health-care advocate, and one of the main leaders of her state's participation in the woman's suffrage movement in the United States.

  7. Women's college in Virginia bars transgender students based ...

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    Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation's diminishing number of women's ...

  8. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    Poland: Article 96 of the Polish constitution of 1921 provided that all citizens were equal under law, however, it did not apply to married women. [75] On 1 July 1921 the Act on the Change of Certain Provisions of the Civil Law Pertaining to Women's Rights was enacted by the Sejm, to address the most obvious inequalities for women who were ...

  9. Women's education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of colleges were founded before the Civil War with all-female student bodies, including (among others, in addition to Salem): Mount Holyoke College of South Hadley, Massachusetts, founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; [59] Wesleyan College of Macon, Georgia, founded in 1836 as Georgia Female College, and is the ...