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The Asociación para la Enseñanza de la Mujer is founded, promoting education for women; it establishes secondary schools and training colleges all over Spain, making secondary and higher education open to females for the first time. [135] Sweden Universities open to women (on the same terms as men in 1873). [136] [137] [138] 1871: United States
In the early colonial history of the United States, higher education was designed for men only. [1] Since the 1800s, women's positions and opportunities in the educational sphere have increased.
It is the nation's oldest Catholic liberal arts college for women. In 1846, it was granted the first charter for the higher education of women in the state of Indiana. It conferred its first Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899. It became fully coeducational in 2015.
The history of higher education in the United States begins in 1636 and continues to the present time. American higher education is known throughout the world for its dramatic expansion. It was also heavily influenced by British models in the colonial era, and German models in the 19th century.
Once women began to graduate from institutions of higher education, there steadily developed also a stronger academic stream of schooling, and the teacher training of women in larger numbers, principally to provide primary education. Women's access to traditionally all-male institutions took several generations to become complete.
The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850. [1] Supporting academic education for women, the seminaries were part of a large and growing trend toward women's equality. [2] Some trace its roots to 1815, and characterize it as at the confluence of various liberation movements.
MacDonald, Sara Z. University Women - A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press. 2021) Rowold, Katharina. The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 (Routledge, 2009). World Bank Task Force on Higher Education and Society.
However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at that time.) [83] Middlebury College [citation needed] University of Texas [citation needed] 1884