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ERIC Number: EJ513578
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-3193
Why Are There So Few Eminent Women?
Silverman, Linda Kreger
Roeper Review, v18 n1 p5-13 Sep 1995
This article reviews the history of discrimination against gifted women and quotes notables such as Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The article also examines the history of the education of women, the work of Leta Stetter Hollingworth, and current perspectives on giftedness and women's definitions of success. (DB)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attitudes, Beliefs, Females, Feminism, Gifted, High Achievement, History, Sex Discrimination, Success, Talent, Womens Education
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Exceptionally Gifted; Hollingworth (Leta Stetter)
Note: Special issue: Adult Women's Talent Development.