Girton College: The College for Women

After collecting and delivering supplies during the war, Clara Barton was inspired to found the American Red Cross in 1881. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women in the United States to earn a medical degree, and this led to the opening of the Womans Central Association of Relief for the Sick. She also founded Wounded of the Army, a precurser to US Sanitation Commission. Hannah Ropes discovered that a male steward had been physically abusing male soldiers and when she told her male superior, she wasn’t believed because of her gender. Ropes then went to court with the case, and he was arrested. Mary Ann Bickerdyke publicly confronted a male surgeon that had been stealing clothing from patients, and encouraged other women to speak out when wrongs were

One unique approach to developing self worth for the students at Giddings was the organization of a football program where they actually played surrounding schools. Hubner saw that this not only was a great release of aggression but also created a sense of trust and camaraderie among students based on mutual respect. Ironically, it was on the football field where they learned that there are alternatives to the violence they usually used to resolve differences. Unlike many football teams with teenage boys, winning was not the ultimate goal for the players at Giddings. In fact, they

Dr. Stowe continued to break down important barriers for the next generation of women doctors and continued to try to make education more available for women. She put relentless pressure on the University of Toronto to reverse its policy. With luck, the first woman doctor to graduate from a Canadian medical school was actually her own daughter, Augusta in 1883! In the same year, at a public meeting of the Toronto Women's Suffrage Association, many ideas lead to the creation of the Ontario Medical College for Women. Attending an international conference of suffragettes in Washington, D.C an 1888 inspired her to “bring home” the information to revitalize the women’s educational and political rights movement in Canada. 4 The following year, she was also a co-founder of the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association. She became it’s first president and held the position until her death. The following year in 1889, the Women's Christian Temperance Union addressed the Ontario

The women of the temperance movement worked to rally around the abuse of alcohol because, in the words of Mary C. Vaugh, "there is no reform in which woman can act better or more appropriately than temperance. Its effect fall so crushingly upon her she has so often seen its slow, insidious, but not the less surely fatal advances, gaining upon its victim. Oh! The misery, the utter, hopeless misery of the drunkard's wife!" (Danzer et al.). As women's activism increased their goals shifted towards that of helping women through education and schools; up until the 1820s there were little opportunity to educate women beyond elementary school but the changing times and changing attitude of women paved way for a transformation of this status quo. In 1821, the Troy Female Seminary opens it's doors and became one of the nation's first female schools for higher learning and as decades past more schools followed suit such as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and the first coeducational college, Oberlin College in

Other influential women in women suffrage history, such as Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, formed the American Woman Suffrage Association in late 1869. This group’s goal was to continue Anthony’s and Stanton’s goal and gain voting rights for women through amendments to individual state constitutions. The territory of Wyoming was later the first to pass the women’s suffrage law; and women began to serve on juries there as early as the following year.

Jane was sent to Rockford Female Seminary in 1877, but desperately wanted to one day attend Smith College, where she could earn a respectable degree.

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As the Revolutionary Era progressed, women's cries for rights and suffrage were further amplified. More women sought education, and with it, more women's education institutions were established, such as the Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia (Doc. J) With education, women became much more politically active and opinionated. As expressed by Molly Wallace, an educated woman in 1792, they fought for women's suffrage, wanting a public say in society, and the ability to vote (Doc. J) Furthermore, they sought to break from the cult of domesticity and the conservative female sphere. Many women did, in fact, break themselves from these conventional stereotypical views of women. Abigail Adams, for one, the wife of president John Adams, was a woman that had great influence in politics. Even Founding Father Thomas Jefferson sought the opinions and advice of Abigail Adams, as in a letter to Jefferson in 1787,

Like Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul’s upbringing molded her into the courageous and headstrong woman that she became. Paul’s parents, Hicksite Quakers, instilled in their children the faith’s fundamental ideology, most notably gender equality and hard, honest work. An active member of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Alice’s mother, Tacie, often took her to the group’s weekly meetings. Paul once stated, “When the Quakers were founded...one of their principles was and is equality of the sexes. So I never had any other idea...the principle was always there.” Education served as the foundation of Paul’s family legacy. Her maternal grandfather, Judge William Parry, founded the coeducational Swarthmore College—the college that both Alice and her mother attended. Paul also earned an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.

She soon picked up an interest in medicine, and looked into becoming a physician. After being rejected by many medical schools, she was accepted into the Geneva Medical College in 1847. Male students and faculty were asked to vote on her acceptance, and most voted yes as a joke. Blackwell continued on to graduate from the school, and in 1849 became the first woman to receive her medical degree in the United States. Ten years after her acceptance, with the help of her colleagues, she opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857. Blackwell had previously attended the Women’s Rights Convention of 1850 in Worcester, where she advocated for women in the medical field. Although Elizabeth Blackwell did not spend the majority of her time directly fighting for women’s rights, she provided a stepping stone. She was voted into the Geneva Medical College jokingly, and proved that women were more intelligent than they were thought to be, and that they could be physicians or whatever they put their mind to. This set a precedent for the medical world known today, where many of the top doctors are female.

In 2009, Centenary College in Shreveport, La, audaciously cut half of its 44 majors after the endowment dropped by 20 percent. Many can feel repercussions in many different ways. Although people were affected, the college made the correct decision to cut those classes.. Also, there is truth in the statement, “And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe…” (Bradbury), and it can be reflected in The Death of Liberal Arts by Nancy Cook.

Born as Carrie Clinton Lane, January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin, Catt spent most of her life empowering women. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in general science in 1880 from Iowa State University; she was the only woman in her graduating class. In 1883 she was appointed Mason City school superintendent, one of the first women to do so. She joined the suffrage movement in 1887 by becoming a member of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association. Suffrage is the right or privilege of voting. As a member of IWSA, she organized suffrage events and worked as a professional lecturer and writer. In 1892 she spoke to Congress to address the proposed suffrage amendment.

Bethune started a school for African American girls in Daytona, Florida and later merged the school with a private institute for African American boys and the school was named Bethune-Cookman School. She became president of the school and was one of the few women in the world to serve as a college president at that time.

The women founders of sociological theory made it possible for women and members of other marginalized communities to gain access to the rights and privileges their white male counterparts enjoyed for centuries. In particular, the incredible lives of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ida B. Wells-Barnett allowed new avenues of academia and social change that had not previously been conceivable. Although they used different approaches and their theories focused on different aspects of the society in which they lived, a common thread ties them together in the history of feminist thinkers: their passion for social and

The first and foremost best way that women had approached equality would be the pursuit of education. Judith Sargent Murray