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  2. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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    The first female students are accepted at Peking University, soon followed by universities all over China. [257] 1921: United States Sadie Tanner Mossell becomes the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S. {in economics from the University of Pennsylvania). [258] Thailand Compulsory elementary education for both girls and boys ...

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

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    1836: Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College), Macon, Georgia: It is the oldest (and the first) school which was established from inception as a full college for women offering the same education as men. Awarded the first known baccalaureate degree to a woman.

  4. Female education - Wikipedia

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    Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. [1] [2] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education.

  5. Socioeconomic impact of female education - Wikipedia

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    Increases in the amount of female education in regions tends to correlate with high levels of development. Some of the effects are related to economic development. Women's education increases the income of women and leads to growth in GDP. Other effects are related to social development. Educating girls leads to a number of social benefits ...

  6. Ellen Swallow Richards - Wikipedia

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    She was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated in 1873 and later became its first female instructor. [1] [4] Richards was the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, which she earned from Vassar College in ...

  7. MIT Reports Gains for Female Professors, but Obstacles Remain

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    MIT, which was founded in 1861 and graduated its first female student a dozen years later, topped the U.S. News & World Report's list of best U.S. engineering schools this year, beating out ...

  8. Sex differences in education - Wikipedia

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    Sex discrimination in education is applied to women in several ways. First, many sociologists of education view the educational system as an institution of social and cultural reproduction. [33] The existing patterns of inequality, especially for gender inequality, are reproduced within schools through formal and informal processes. [1]

  9. First women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford

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    In November 1910, the University of Oxford established the Delegacy for Women Students.This was a huge step towards women being granted full membership, not least because the statute which established the Delegacy acknowledged women as Oxford members for the first time as well as the five women's colleges, with the University assuming formal control and supervision over them.