Women in Higher Education

The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject of women in higher education.America''s first wave of feministsSusan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and othersincluded expanded opportunities for higher education in their Declaration of Sentiments at the first Women''s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls New York in l848. By then the first American institutions to educate women had been founded among them Mt. Holyoke Seminary in l837. However not until after the Civil War did most universities admit womenand not for egalitarian purposes. War casualties had caused a drop in enrollment and the states needed teachers. Women students paid tuition but as teachers were paid salaries half that of men.By the late 20th century there were more female than male students of higher education but women remained underrepresented at the higher levels of educational leadership and training. This volume covers everything from historical and cultural context and gender theory to women in the curriculum and as faculty and administrators.