women education history timeline

By amandashay

  • college

    Harvard was the first college founded in the united states

  • literacy rate

    women's rate went up 45% men's rate went up 70%

  • college for black women

    oberlin college was the first collage to accept black women

  • awarding women

    Wesleyan female college of Macon became the first educational institution to award higher degrees to women

  • bachelor degree

    3 american women were the fist to earn a regular bachelor degree by meeting the same qualifications as the men in Oberlin

  • new college

    Vassar college founded in new york first of the influential seven sisters women institution to open as a college

  • open for women

    wellesley college open with the first scientific laboratory to open for women

  • women college

    the united states bureau of education reported 119 women colleges

  • percentages

    women are 39% of collegiate undergraduates and 20% of college faculty

  • medical student

    Harvard medical school accepts its first female student