Women’s University Education: History and Policy

Shields, S

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88935-7_2

Women’s University Education: History and Policy

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Samantha Shields

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Abstract

© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This chapter charts 150 years of women’s university education. First, early women pioneers of university education including the ‘London Nine’ and the founding of Girton College are discussed. Second, teaching careers for women upon graduation in the early twentieth century are explored. Third, the women’s single-sex Oxbridge colleges are compared to the co-educational civic universities. Fourth, a discussion of the Robbins Report wanting women to benefit from the expansion of university provision is outlined. Fifth, women undertaking Open University degrees are discussed. Sixth, the social composition of universities as highlighted by the Dearing Report and university provision under the New Labour government are explained. Finally financing university study since 2019 is emphasised due to its relevance to this study of working-class women undergraduates.