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The education of women in the United States: A guide to theory, teaching, and research (Routledge, 2014). online; Nash, Margaret A. "The historiography of education for girls and women in the United States." in William J Reese, William J. and John J. Rury, eds. Rethinking the History of American Education (2008) pp 143–159. excerpt
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.
The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 35 active women's colleges in the U.S. as of 2021. [1]
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.
Although the United States signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1980, it has never been ratified. [ 61 ] Many historians view the second wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the Feminist Sex Wars , a split within the movement over issues such as sexuality and pornography.
Title IX is a portion of the United States Education Amendments of 1972, Public Law No. 92‑318, 86 Stat. 235 (June 23, 1972), codified at 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681–1688, co-authored and introduced by Senator Birch Bayh; it was renamed the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in 2002, after its late House co-author and sponsor. It states ...
Over 180 female academies and at least 14 female seminaries were established in the United States between 1790 and 1830. [95] Rich planters were particularly insistent on having their daughters schooled, since education often served as a substitute for dowry in marriage arrangements.
Frances Willard becomes the first women's college president in the United States, as president of Evanston College for Ladies in Illinois. [139] [118] Harriette Cooke becomes the first woman college professor in the United States,omes appointed full professor with a salary equal to that of her male peers. [107] Ottoman Empire