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Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan is a case decided 5–4 by the Supreme Court, determining that the single-sex admissions policy of the Mississippi University for Women violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [239] Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc. is a US labor law decision of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of ...
This amendment to the law gave women in the workforce additional rights, recognizing the importance of their work. The law saw single women being entitled to a salary similar to that of her male peers working in the same job. The law had one problem though in that married women still required permission from their husbands to accept a job. [171 ...
United States, Ohio: Ohio passed a Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) bill containing provisions related to admitting privileges and licensing and requiring clinics to have a transfer agreement with a hospital. [339] United States, Ohio: A law was signed in June by Governor John Kasich. It mandates (among other things) that ...
1851: College of Notre Dame (now Notre Dame de Namur University) was the first women's college in California and the first in the state authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees to women. The university is now coeducational. It became a graduate school in 2021. 1852: Young Ladies Seminary (now Mills College at Northeastern University).
University Hall, c. 1900-1910. Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s, with the university awarding its first master's and doctoral degrees in 1886 and 1890 respectively. 1891 saw the founding of Ohio State's law school, the Moritz College of Law. It would later acquire colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary ...
The Bing Act of 1921 was an Ohio law, adopted April 29, 1921, that stated children between the ages of six and eighteen are required to attend school. There were two major exceptions to this law: a child who had already graduated high school did not have to stay in school until turning eighteen; and a child who was sixteen years old and had passed the seventh grade was allowed to work as a ...
Florida State University, Tallahassee (founded as "Seminary West of the Suwanee", a co-ed institution in 1851, became "Florida State College for Women" in 1905, and returned to co-education with current name in 1947) Lynn University, Boca Raton (co-ed since 1971) Saint Joseph College of Florida, Jensen Beach (closed in 1972)
At Ball State University the club sewed regularly at the local hospital. [82] The Faculty Wives clubs were prominent throughout much of the 20th century. During the latter half, some of the clubs merged with other groups to form University Women's club, reflecting the change in faculty diversity and gender roles in the United States.