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The Quest to Be Educated: the Complicated History of Women and Higher Education
Friends of the Library at Bryn Mawr College and New Century Trust 1307 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA
At a time when women seem to be outperforming men in many areas of educational achievement, it is difficult to remember that higher education for women was a highly controversial idea just a century ago, and that most elite colleges and universities in America did not admit women until the 1970s. Dr. Redmond will talk about women’s early struggles to gain access to higher education, the preconceptions of women’s capabilities and roles in society that had to be overcome, and the critical role played by women’s colleges like Bryn Mawr. Jennifer Redmond is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. Her Ph.D. is from Trinity College in Ireland, and her research focuses on Irish women emigrants and women’s education.
The event is co-sponsored by The New Century Trust, an organization founded in 1893 to support the social, industrial and educational cultivation and improvement of working girls and women. For more about the Trust, see http://newcenturytrust.org
For additional information, or to rsvp, please contact the Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library: SpecColl@brynmawr.edu, 610-526-6576