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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.
The first women are sent abroad to study (but are banned from studying abroad in 1929). [77] Bahrain The first public primary school for girls. [145] Egypt The first women students are admitted to Cairo University. [145] Ghana Jane E. Clerk is one of two students in the first batch at Presbyterian Women's Training College. [266] 1929: Greece
In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183-207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online
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 ...
Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden DBE (31 December 1840 – 2 January 1935) was a Scottish pioneer of female education. [1] Lumsden was one of the first five students Hitchen College, later Girton College, Cambridge in 1869 and one of the first three women to pass the Tripos exam in 1873. [2] She returned as the first female resident and tutor to ...
Betty Pettersson was born to the saddle maker Olof Pettersson and Magdalena Sofia Carolina Kullberg in Visby. She was not born into a wealthy family; however, when she was discovered to be a talented student, she was given the opportunity to study at a private girls' school in Visby, where normally only pupils from wealthy families were accepted.
Queen's College developed into a girls' public school and Bedford College became part of the University of London before merging with another women's college. The first of the Cambridge women's colleges, Girton, which opened in 1869 initially in Hitchin, claims to be the first residential college in Britain to offer degree level education to ...
The number of undergraduate women majoring in economics in the United States peaked in the mid to late 1990s and has decreased ever since. Nationwide there are about three males for every female student majoring in economics, and this ratio has not changed for more than 20 years. [11]