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  2. 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

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

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    In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183-207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online

  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. First women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford

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    In 1910 the halls and the home students became "recognised societies" of the university and in 1920 "societies of women students". [14] From 1927 until 1957 there was a quota system which limited the number of students admitted to the women's societies. [15]: 233–234 They were only accepted as full colleges of the university in 1959. [16]

  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. Socioeconomic impact of female education - Wikipedia

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    Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers , "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the ...

  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. Betty Pettersson - Wikipedia

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    Betty Pettersson was born to the saddle maker Olof Pettersson and Magdalena Sofia Carolina Kullberg in Visby. She was not born into a wealthy family; however, when she was discovered to be a talented student, she was given the opportunity to study at a private girls' school in Visby, where normally only pupils from wealthy families were accepted.