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Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz – 1984
The creation and development of 10 women's colleges are discussed: Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard (the Seven Sisters colleges), and Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps. Consideration is given to: how each of these colleges offered to women an education equal to that offered by the best men's…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, College Students, Educational Facilities Design
Solomon, Barbara Miller – 1985
The social, cultural, and economic circumstances that have shaped the development of women's higher education are discussed. After considering colonial America when women were outsiders to liberal arts institutions, the creation of women's and co-educational colleges is traced and the process by which women of different ethnic, racial, religious,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coeducation, College Attendance, Economic Factors
