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ERIC Number: EJ319052
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Public Schools, Safety-Nets and Educational Ladders: The Classification of Girls' Secondary Schools, 1880-1914.
Howarth, Janet
Oxford Review of Education, v11 n1 p59-71 1985
In order to study women's social mobility in the United Kingdom, a typology of girls' schools is needed. Proposed here is a typology for girls' secondary schools before 1914. The typology preserves distinctions between public and private, boarding and day schools, and introduces subdivisions indicating academic quality. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Education, Educational History, Females, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Secondary Education, Secondary Schools, Sex Discrimination, Social Mobility, Social Status, Socioeconomic Status, Womens Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United Kingdom