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1877: Helen Magill White became the first American woman to earn a Ph.D., which she earned at Boston University in the subject of Greek. [78] [85] [86] 1878: Mary L. Page became the first American woman to earn a degree in architecture, which she earned from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [87] [88]
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Anandibai Joshi from India, Kei Okami from Japan, and Sabat Islambouli from Syria become the first women from their respective countries (and in Joshi's case the first Hindu woman) to get a degree in western medicine (from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania). [199] [200] France Women become eligible to join public education boards. [201]
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
1867: Scotia Seminary (now Barber-Scotia College): It was the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War and became a women's college in 1946. It became a coeducational school in 1954 and lost its accreditation in 2004. 1868: Wells College is located in Aurora, New York. It went coed ...
The movement of young women into teaching began in the Northeast—in Massachusetts 78% of the teachers were women in 1860. The South was laggard. In Virginia 34% of the white teachers were women in 1870, and 69% by 1900. Women were only 24% of the Black teachers in 1870, and 54% by 1900.
It's worth noting that while this theme of female silence is prevalent throughout the written fairy tales published in Germany and enduring in America today, this trend wasn't always the norm: Charles Perrault's French renditions of these stories place greater value on beautiful women who are also articulate.
As John Adams put it, a native-born American "who cannot read and write is as rare ... as a comet or an earthquake." By the time of the American Revolution, there were 40 newspapers in the United States (at a time when there were only two cities – New York City and Philadelphia – with as many as 20,000 people in them). [5] [6] [7]