THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION
The evolution of women's education is a vary broad concept and varies from region to region. While some countries were allowing girls to go to school, it was still prohibited in other countries. But here is a basic global timeline of events:
600 BC
43 AD-410 AD
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- Unlike many places in the World, the Greek province of Sparta allowed women and men to have the same level of education
43 AD-410 AD
- Girls in Roman Britain go to a school called a ludus. Upper class Roman women are highly educated.
- During the Middle Ages girls from wealthy families are educated at home. Nuns are often highly educated.
- Founded in 1727 by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Ursula, Ursuline Academy, New Orleans, is both the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States. The Ursuline Sisters founded this school out of the conviction that the education of women was essential to the development of a civilized, spiritual and just society, and has influenced culture and learning in New Orleans by providing an exceptional education for its women.
- India: Western Christian missionaries opened the first schools in India open to girls
- In Egypt Christian missionaries were allowed to open elementary schools for girls
- Belgium: elementary school opens for both genders
- Costa Rica: first high school for girls, and the profession of teacher was opened to women.
- Egypt: The first Egyptian school for females was opened by the Copts minority.
- Serbia: The first secondary educational school for females was inaugurated (public schools for girls having opened in 1845-46).
- Sweden: The profession of teacher at public primary and elementary schools was opened to both sexes
- Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first African-American in the U.S. to earn a diploma in nursing, which she earned from the School of Nursing at the New England Hospital for Woman and Children in Boston.
- Brazil: Universities open to women.
- France: Colleges and secondary education open to women.
- India: The first college open to women: Bethune College (the first female graduate in 1883)
- Albania: The first school of higher education for women is opened.
- Germany: Women are allowed to attend university lectures, which makes it possible for individual professors to accept female students if they wish.
- Portugal: The first medical university degree is granted to a woman.
- Switzerland: Secondary schools open to women
- Sudan: The first school open to Muslim girls.
- Iran: Compulsory primary education for females.
- Iran: The first Iranian school for girls is established by Tuba Azmudeh, followed by others in the following years.
- Japan: Tohoku University, the first (private) coeducational university
- Greece: The first public secondary educational school for girls open.
- Iran: Public schools for girls are opened in order to enforce the law of compulsory education for girls in practice.
- Uruguay: University education open to women.
- Nicaragua: The first female obtains a university degree.
- Iran: Compulsory primary education for both males and female.
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Though women have made great strides throughout history when it come to education, There is still more work to be done considering the millions of girls Worldwide who still do not have an education and are out of school.