Type of Paper
Roundtable
Abstract
The history of women’s education in the United States is a rich and colorful one, marked by struggle and victory against huge odds. This roundtable paper, a work in progress, highlights the remarkable efforts of specific women to achieve the right to an education for all women from the end of the Revolutionary War through the 1990s.
Keywords
women's education, history
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Dentith, A.
(2016).
Women’s History in Education in the United States.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2016/roundtables/4
Women’s History in Education in the United States
The history of women’s education in the United States is a rich and colorful one, marked by struggle and victory against huge odds. This roundtable paper, a work in progress, highlights the remarkable efforts of specific women to achieve the right to an education for all women from the end of the Revolutionary War through the 1990s.
