During World War II, female students at the University of California, Berkeley--then the most populous undergraduate campus in American higher education--made significant advances in collegiate life. In growing numbers, women enrolled in male-dominated academic programs, including mathematics, chemistry, and engineering, as they prepared for…

Women faculty at Wellesley College in the Progressive Era were not only the best female academics of their generation, they also created a rich social life and sense of community among themselves. At the same time they maintained a commitment to social activism. Their accomplishments and limitations are discussed. (IS)

Discusses influences of the Troy Female Seminary, the first permanent institution offering American women a curriculum similar to that of contemporary men's colleges. Also discusses the role of founder Emma Willard in the social history of the nineteenth century and in the diffusion of feminist values. (KC)

Discusses attitudes and characteristics of northern female teachers from the American Missionary Society who volunteered to instruct newly-freed slaves after the Civil War. In the South, these women supplemented moral self-righteousness with a strong sense of professionalism to produce challenges to their male superiors in the areas of educational…

Reexamines Thomas Woody's 1929 "A History of Women's Education in the United States" relative to the time period in which it was written and subsequent events. Concludes that Woody's treatise, with its wealth of information, remains important for the historian today, even though time has eroded his central premise. (KO)

Argues that during the late-nineteenth century, when teachers became de-skilled and women's access to top administration became limited, female spaces and social organizations emerged that were conducive to long service and career advancement at the low echelons of the bureaucracy. Focuses on a social history of teachers in Providence, Rhode…