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

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    Education showed women how to exercise their civic responsibilities, and it showed them the importance of the vote. Participation in student government trained women "early to become leaders later." [41] One study showed that in 1935, 62 percent of women college graduates voted compared to only 50 percent of women who did not attend college. [42]

  3. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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    The first women are sent abroad to study (but are banned from studying abroad in 1929). [77] Bahrain The first public primary school for girls. [145] Egypt The first women students are admitted to Cairo University. [145] Ghana Jane E. Clerk is one of two students in the first batch at Presbyterian Women's Training College. [266] 1929: Greece

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

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    1787: Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia was the first government-recognized institution established for women's higher education in the United States. 1803: Bradford Academy (later renamed Bradford College) was the first academy in Massachusetts to admit women. The first graduating class had 37 women and 14 men. It closed in 2000.

  5. 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.

  6. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Three fourths of the women died in the first few months; while the men were building housing and drinking fresh water the women were confined to the damp and crowded quarters of the ship. [41] By the time of the first Thanksgiving in autumn 1621, there were only four women from the Mayflower left alive.

  7. The US still has not had a woman leader – here are the ...

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    The first woman was elected to lead a country 64 years ago. Here’s a look at where, and when, women have secured national leadership positions since then.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Title IX - Wikipedia

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    Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.