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How has gender shaped women’s access to further and higher education…
How has gender shaped women’s access to further and higher education throughout history?
1800's: The victorian era and industrial revolution
45% women are illierate while only 30% of men are
Oxford or Cambridge: only unmarried, from the church of England men could attend
Institutes started to open for women because of the industrial revolution (because it would benefit the governments)
Public primary schools prioritised boys, while the girls would stay at home and help their mothers
Universities opening for women
1830: Mechanics institute of London
1873: University of London -- Also first to give degrees to women in the UK in 1878
1828: Durham, Owens, Birmingham
1886: Bedfort and Royal Holloway
Rosa Luxembourg
Gratuated form the University of Zurich in 1887
Assassinated by the Germans because of her revolutionary ideas
Marxist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist and revolutionary socialist
Today
Exceed men in university research
More men are employed in the labour industry
More women than men in medical school
Females having higher rates of participation
With the same education and job, women still get paid less
