Single Sex Schooling Has Occurred Throughoutu.s History

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.

Articles written during a specific period gives the future population an idea of the issues present during that time. Before the United States became independent, woman education was limited to the skill needed to be a good wife and proper mother. Particularly, upper-class woman were the only ones that had the resources to gain an education. Most middle and lower class focus primarily on the education of their males. European education influence Colonial America’s educational system. Since there weren’t any establish convents schools in the colonies, tutors were primarily hired and later on schools were incorporated. During the first years of schooling, new England girls went to a coed school called “dame school”. In the dame school, girls were thought to knit and sew. Many girls got the chance to go to the town school. However, some town school in new England prohibited girls from attending. In the south, girls got the

Imagine that you were in a classroom full of your gender how would you feel? Well, if you feel that you're not ok with that well, In school year 2004-05 122 public schools offered single sex classes and 34 public schools were single sex classes mandatory according to “Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Boys and Girls.” Article. Close to 70% of kids in single sex classes raised their math and reading scores in “Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Boys and Girls.” Article. Although this may seem bad and shouldn't happen it's really not. Kids in single sex classes will have more of a chance to succeed than students in non single sex class because of most kids have no problem with this in their school, less discipline, and most of all higher grades.

After eight harsh year of war, reconstructing a normal life was found difficult. Poets, political leaders, and even educators began writing about the question of the role of the women known as the woman question. Before the war, women were seen as “both morally and mentally inferior to men”(151). This statement began to get rejected postwar. In 1787, the first academy for women was opened and allowed women to get an education called Philadelphia Young Ladies Academy. Before the revolution, women were not allowed an education, however, “ This revolution in education was so successful that, by the end of the eighteenth century, elite society frowned upon a poorly educated young woman”(153). Women were now able to take similar courses to what

Women were so tired of being treated unequal to men and started to look for change. They rose above society to make a point that women deserve an education so they can better themselves. “By 1886, there were 192 women's assemblies, and an additional number of women joined formerly all-male assemblies” (Manning 2013). By the end of the 1800’s, the number of women that were done being mistreated started to rise rapidly. Women continued to take over men’s “jobs” because they were just as capable. It was unusual for women to try to attend colleges, but they gradually started to apply. “Although few persons obtained a college education then, by 1880 women constituted one of every three students enrolled at institutions of higher learning, and many remained single. Of eight thousand female college graduates in 1880, only five thousand were married” (Sklar 1998). Marriage seemed to be one of the main factors that restricted many women into getting a college degree. Women during that time were better off because they did not have to worry about men’s daily opinions of them and how they should act and

According to Judith Lorber, an author and professor, gender is socially constructed because “everyone is guilty of doing gender everyday (pg. 65).” Since the beginning of time women were considered subordinate to men and only believed to be successful at womanly task. Women were expected to clean the house, cook the food and take care of the children. Men were expected to be the providers, get jobs and get an education. However, there were many women who saw the value in achieving the goal of an education for themselves. In the early 1800’s society did not share the same opinion with advocates for women’s education. Many believed that if a women pursued an education it would take away her “piety, modesty, frugality, and fertility (Solomon pg. 11).” For many women there was a struggle to maintain her female characteristics and prove she can be equally educated as men. There were many obstacles women had to jump over before coeducation of schools came

In Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman she argues that women deserve the same opportunities, especially educational opportunities, as men. Wollstonecraft lived in a time where a woman’s role was to find a husband and raise a family. However, she believed that women were not even being prepared for those roles. Instead of being prepared to be “affectionate wives and rational mothers”, they were trained to be “alluring mistresses” (6). This did nothing to change society. As a solution she suggested an education system where young boys and girls of all socioeconomic classes were educated together, in a school system that focused on teaching them how to think rather than just memorizing the material (169).

Over the past couple of decades’ girls have begun to surpass boys in academics. Girls have higher high school and college graduation rates, enrollment in Advance Placement (AP) classes, selected for valedictorians and salutatorians, and there are more female applicants being accepted to professional programs, such as physicians and surgeons and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Throughout history, men had access to better education than women. The educating of women was deemed unnecessary by parents, elders, educators, and other members of the community. The traditional role for women consisted of homemaking and child rearing, neither required any type of formal education. Clearly, skills to support these traditional roles were important and often acquired from the more senior women of the extended family and the

Education was not equal between the sexes and neither between the classes. Gentlemen were educated at home until they were old enough to attend well-known or lesser schools. A lady’s schooling was

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

In the early 1700’s when America was first being founded young boys were being taught in schools or in homes while girls were not allowed in these places. As time went on in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, girls were allowed to attend school. One of the most critical events in the history of education for women’s education was the creation of the Ladies Academy in 1787, which was an all- female school, which was primarily taught by men. The 1800’s were the most important changes for education for women. In 1815 the Female Seminary Movement began and was led by women whose goals were to offer

Many people might say the single sex schools are ineffective, because girls and boys need to know how to communicate with the opposite sex. They should be enforced to help children reach their full dreams without the thought of humility standing in their way. School is a place where students get acquainted with the basics of the life, which further helps them to foster their proficiency level in different aspects of life required in this competitive world, and the most important part of school is not where students get time to socialize with each other. Although Co-ed schools are a first choice for most adolescents and their parents, Single sex schools are equally good. In single sex schools, students don't have to worry about sexual

Education has been an important factor of all of our lives for an exceptional amount of time, but unfortunately, America has been falling behind from other nations in their education system compared to other nations (Pahlke 444). Almost all of our public schools in our country are coeducational and only handful of them are single-sex educational schools. Single-sex education should be taken into high consideration for most students to attend because of the benefits they might gain from them. It is important to look at all possible ways to try and better our education system for the benefit of the children and teenagers attending school. The most important years of schooling that provide a solid background for all students would be

The single-sex format creates opportunities that do not exist in the coed classrooms. Single-sex education has been growing in popularity since the 2002 “No child

Single-sex instruction is an old approach that is increasing new force. While single-sex instruction has since a long time ago existed in numerous non-public schools, it 's a moderately new choice for state funded schools. The National Association for Single-Sex Public Education gauges that around 400 government funded schools now offer some type of single-sex training. What is filling this development? What 's more, what are the dangers and advantages of single-sex training?