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

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   1970. 41.5%. 13.3%. 1980. 49%. 30.3%. The statistics for enrollment of women in higher education in the 1930s varies depending upon the type of census performed in that year. According to the U.S. Office of Education, the total number of enrollment for women in higher education the U.S. in 1930 was 480,802.

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

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   1727: Ursuline Academy is the oldest Catholic school and the oldest school for women in the United States. It now provides primary and secondary education for girls. 1742: Bethlehem Female Seminary was founded in Germantown and later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It received its collegiate charter in 1863.

4. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of women's education. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886: Anandibai Joshee from India (left) with Kei Okami from Japan (center) and Sabat Islambooly from Syria (right). All three completed their medical studies and each of them was the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine.

5. Female education - Wikipedia

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   e. 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 ...

6. Female seminary - Wikipedia

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   A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce. The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850. [1]

7. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1840, the first Catholic women's college Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana as an academy, later becoming the college. The college became co-educational in 2015. Vassar College in 1862. Some early women's colleges failed to survive.