Women's Education

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This paper explores the history of education for girls and women in three countries - the United States, Ireland and Britain. It looks at 'traditional' professions for women through the ages, provides college statistics and shows how women have improved their lot in all fields. The paper also looks at the role that women's rights movements played in advancing education for women.

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"The 1990s were an important period in the educational status of the Irish woman, due mostly to the huge increase in her access to and participation in paid employment, especially in the 25-45 age bracket. Simultaneous to this was her involvement in a whole range of educational, training, employment and community development programmes, which have tremendously increased (Barry, 2000). The key factors to this development included her control over her fertility life and fewer as well as shorter interruptions to her formal work activity, changes in a woman's life expectations; the high economic growth in Ireland, which resulted in the expansion of employment, in turn requiring an improvement in education and educational status."

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