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

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   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. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1840, the first Catholic women's college Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana as an academy, later becoming the college. The college became co-educational in 2015. Vassar College in 1862. Some early women's colleges failed to survive.

4. Women's colleges in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   Hollins University. Women's colleges in the Southern United States refers to undergraduate, bachelor's degree –granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations consist exclusively or almost exclusively of women, located in the Southern United States. Many started first as girls' seminaries or academies.

5. Women's Educational Equity Act - Wikipedia

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   The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) of 1974 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. Introduced in the United States House of Representatives by ...

6. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of women's education. Appearance. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886: Anandibai Joshee from India (left) with Kei Okami from Japan (center) and Sabat Islambooly from Syria (right). All three completed their medical studies and each of them was the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western ...

7. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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   Some notable events: 1769 – The colonies adopt the English system decreeing women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings. 1777– All states pass laws which take away ...

8. Betty Friedan - Wikipedia

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   Betty Friedan (/ ˈ f r iː d ən, f r iː ˈ d æ n, f r ɪ-/; [1] February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.

9. Project on the Status and Education of Women - Wikipedia

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   The Project on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW) was the first United States project focused on gender equity in education. Formed in 1971 by the Association of American Colleges (AAC), known today as the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), PSEW worked to improve access to and equity within higher education for women, addressing the needs of university students ...