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Peer reviewedGillett, Margaret – Educational Studies: A Journal in the Foundations of Education, 1982
Uses the conversion of McGill University to a coeducational institution in 1884 as a case study of the role of women in universities. Gillett discusses the educational implications of traditional and feminist views of women in terms of female stereotypes, perceptions of female educability, and the role of women in society. (AM)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Case Studies, Coeducation, Comparative Education
Gillett, Margaret – 1981
Nineteenth-century assumptions about the nature of women, her educability, her role in society, and debates about coeducation are examined in this record of the efforts of the first women students to gain entrance in McGill University in Canada. The introduction offers historical background, ideas of women, and the opening of higher education to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coeducation, College Admission, College Students
