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

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    1970. 41.5%. 13.3%. 1980. 49%. 30.3%. The statistics for enrollment of women in higher education in the 1930s varies depending upon the type of census performed in that year. According to the U.S. Office of Education, the total number of enrollment for women in higher education the U.S. in 1930 was 480,802.

  3. Female education - Wikipedia

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    e. 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 ...

  4. Female seminary - Wikipedia

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    A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850. [1]

  5. Linda Carol Brown - Wikipedia

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    Linda Carol Brown (February 20, 1943 – March 25, 2018) was an American campaigner for equality in education. As a school-girl in 1954, Brown became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. [1][2] Brown was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas.

  6. Treatment of women by the Taliban - Wikipedia

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    [9] However, they restricted access to education for teenage girls by allowing only boys to resume schooling. Additionally, they prohibited women in Afghanistan from working in most sectors beyond health and education. [10] [11] [12] Some provinces still allow secondary education for girls, despite the nation-wide ban.

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

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    The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education (educational equity). WEEA was enacted as Section 513 of P.L. 93-380.

  8. Educational inequality - Wikipedia

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    Educational Inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including but not limited to school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, physical facilities and technologies, to socially excluded communities. These communities tend to be historically disadvantaged and oppressed.

  9. Hopwood v. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 ( 5th Cir. 1996), [ 1] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. [ 2] In Hopwood, four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin 's School of Law challenged the ...