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Education for Women
Educating Women
In the early 1800s, education for women was limited to elementary school. After years of battling society, the first school for girls, the Troy Female Seminary, was opened in Troy, NY in 1821. in 1837, Oberlin College in Ohio admitted the first women, four of them, into its college. Also that year, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was opened as the first women's higher learning school. African-American women did not fully begin to enter the educational system until after the Civil War.