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The education of women in the United States: A guide to theory, teaching, and research (Routledge, 2014). online; Nash, Margaret A. "The historiography of education for girls and women in the United States." in William J Reese, William J. and John J. Rury, eds. Rethinking the History of American Education (2008) pp 143–159. excerpt
Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The following is a list of current and historical women's colleges in the United States, organized by state.These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women.
Oates, Mary J., ed. Higher Education for Catholic Women: An Historical Anthology (Garland, 1987). Rosenberg, Rosalind. "The Limits of Access: The History Of Coeducation in America." In Women and Higher Education: Essays from the Mount Holyoke College Sesquicentennial Symposia. Ed. John Mack Faragher and Florence Howe. New York: Norton, 1988.
Many of the schools began as either school for girls, academies (which during the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the equivalent of secondary schools), or as a teaching seminary (which during the early 19th century were forms of secular higher education), rather than as a chartered college. During the 19th century in the United States ...
The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, [1] is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. [2] [3] The organization has a nationwide network of 170,000 members and supporters, [3] 1,000 local branches, [3] and 800 college and university ...
In 1959, King Saud addressed the nation, started a public Girl Education program. [125] In 1960, "Kuliyat Al Banat" (The girl college) was launched, which was the first girl form of higher education in Saudi Arabia. [126] By 1961 there were 12 elementary schools for girls and by 1965 there were 160.
A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. In the United States, almost all women's colleges are private undergraduate institutions, with many offering coeducational graduate programs.