Education In The 1800's

Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes reveals the struggles women had in the 17th-18th centuries when it came to equal education opportunities. Women were expected to become people of domestication while men had many opportunities to expand their minds and be ambitious, and be leaders. Women were expected to focus on taking care of their family, not to have minds of their own. They wanted change.

Women’s roles have changed greatly throughout history. As the advancement of culture, laws, and ideas altered ways of life, women’s lives also evolved in numerous aspects of society. Women’s roles changed greatly between 1815 and 1860. During this time, family dynamics changed as the mothers that were placed at the center of the household were given greater freedoms. In addition, women had more opportunity to take on jobs in the workplace. Women also fought for reform movements that altered their ways of life in the community. During the reform era of the United States, factors such as religion, education, and reforms greatly changed women’s roles in the family, workplace, and society.

Women were an essential contribution towards expanding the West. Womens roles changed and during this time and there was a major shift in women power.

Before the Reformation, education for women slightly improved but it was essentially limited to household training but this changed during the 15 and

According to Kenneth E. Redd from Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Making a Comeback, teachers in the 1800’s were white philanthropists. They were in southern states under auspices of the federal Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (commonly known as the Freedmen Bureau), black churches and white philanthropists. They help to establish several colleges, Howard University, Atlanta University, (Clark Atlanta) St. Augustine College (North Carolina) Fisk University (Tennessee) and Johnson C. Smith (North Carolina). The first HBCUs were private, non-profit institutions and was funded by without government support.

The role of women in society and at home increased, women were not subordinate to men, nor were they over men. Women and Men were equal both at home.

Prior to the 20th century women did not have a seat in many college institutes. Society did not see a need to educate women because a women did not need an education to take care of home. Society held women back for many years because of gendering and categorizing women as inferior to men. There were many people who believed there were biological differences that hindered women from achieving things that men accomplished. Only until the early 19th century was there a push for higher education of women. At this time only a few colleges has become coeducated and women colleges were being built. In the end women were able to become education in spite of society because of their determination and from the help of feminist and philanthropists.

At the beginning of the Century many women didn’t receive a higher education many stopped attending school at a very young age. Many thought educating women was a waste of time, but on a farm in 1787 a wonderful

Gender bias is a huge barrier that prevent girls from gaining knowledge at schools. That is the reason why illiteracy rate of female is increasing. In some countries, especially, in Asia, prior generations usually consider that girls don’t have to access with high education because their main responsibility is being wives. The generations argues that female’s task is housework, so they don’t need to get educational certificates in order to apply for a job. Because of the gender bias, girls have no chance to get knowledge from school and become illiterate

When looking at the woman of that time they were able have more influence by joining churches and religious positions. They also sought to teach other woman on how to educate themselves by becoming educated. Also the book tells you that their

The predominance of women in education can be explained by the dramatic increase of access to education for women between the end of the nineteenth century and 1917. Before the Revolution, education was gender segregated.

Education is one of the things that have changed during the time from eighteenth to 21st century. Mary Wollstonecraft says: ?The education of women has, of late, been more attended to than formerly,? (Mary Wollstonecraft 179). In her time women had to stay at home and take care of the house and the children. Nowadays there are so many day-care centers and many women use them so they can go to work. She could see that in

“Western form of educations introduced [were] mainly to male children. In many places women were not allowed to go to school at the initial stage” (Modupe).

Before the movement woman just acted as their husbands servants. “Woman did not have the power to make contracts, own property or vote.” Because of the movement, women began to have more jobs, such as teaching. To become a teacher advanced education is needed. But, that also limited

The late 18th century can be known as the historical period of the Enlightenment. During this time, society was undergoing drastic changes that would impact people even today. These changes were known as “reforms,” and played a big role in politics and ruling during this time period. One of the bigger reforms of this time was that which would grant women a higher education and place them in a position closer to their male counterparts. The enlightenment authors, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft, took part in a debate in which they argued about the purpose and education of women. In an article recently written in The New York Times by Nicholas