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Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (1990). Hannum, Kelly M., et al. "Women leaders within higher education in the United States: Supports, barriers, and experiences of being a senior leader." Advancing Women in Leadership Journal 35 (2015): 65-75. online; Hobbs, Catherine, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to ...
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 ...
Marriot Management Services gave the association $125,000 in April 1996 to assist "the development and implementation of innovative leadership training programs for women within [education]" which led to the creation of the Institute for Emerging Women Leaders in Higher Education.
The presence of top women leaders can have a positive influence on the emergence of other women leaders in top and middle-management positions. [2] Top women leaders tend to create more female-friendly cultures and supportive human resource policies, and can serve as positive role models for aspiring women leaders. [2]
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]
Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (1998) online; Eisenmann, Linda. "Reconsidering a Classic: Assessing the History of Women's Higher Education a Dozen Years after Barbara Solomon." Harvard Educational Review, 67 (Winter 1997): 689–717. Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era (1990).