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  2. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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    The first female students are accepted at Peking University, soon followed by universities all over China. [257] 1921: United States Sadie Tanner Mossell becomes the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S. {in economics from the University of Pennsylvania). [258] Thailand Compulsory elementary education for both girls and boys ...

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

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    Education was a controversial topic in the 1930s, [34] "and sex-segregated school systems protected "the virtue of female high school students." [35] Home economics and industrial education were new elements of the high school curriculum unmistakably designed for women's occupations. [36]

  4. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1850: Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now part of Drexel University) trained and graduated the first female physicians and the first black female physicians in the country. 1850: Carolina Female College was established in Anson County by an act of the North Carolina legislature. It closed in 1867 for financial reasons. [13]

  5. MIT Reports Gains for Female Professors, but Obstacles Remain

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    MIT, which was founded in 1861 and graduated its first female student a dozen years later, topped the U.S. News & World Report's list of best U.S. engineering schools this year, beating out ...

  6. Edinburgh Seven - Wikipedia

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    Sophia Jex-Blake, leader of the Edinburgh Seven. The Edinburgh Seven were the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. They began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869 and, although the Court of Session ruled that they should never have been admitted, and they did not graduate or qualify as doctors, the campaign they fought gained ...

  7. Female education - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Ellen Swallow Richards - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Shannon Faulkner - Wikipedia

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    Shannon Faulkner is an American teacher, best known for being the first female student to attend The Citadel in 1994, following a lawsuit. [1] She currently teaches English in Greenville, South Carolina .