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

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    1850: Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University) trained and graduated the first female physicians and the first black female physicians in the country. 1850: Carolina Female College was established in Anson County by an act of the North Carolina legislature. It closed in 1867 for financial reasons. [13]

  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. 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]

  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. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...