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Nov 17, 2023 · Outside of Catholic higher education, coeducation became the dominant model in Canadian universities. By 1900, most English-Canadian universities accepted women into their faculties of arts and science, as undergraduates with the right to attend classes alongside men students, and graduate with a degree.
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Although women have always been well represented in schools as students and teachers, it is possible, by examining women's participation in schooling, to understand how that participation has both reflected and produced the unequal position of women in society. Prior to 1850, middle-class families tended to hire governesses and tutors to educate th...
Teaching has always provided employment opportunities for women (see Teaching Profession). In the early 19th century, Canadian women taught children in private domestic settings, in so-called "dame" schools. Some pioneers ran their own schools; for example, Anne Langton (1804-93) ran a small informal school with her brother at Fenelon Falls. By mid...
Women teachers today have generally won equal salaries with men and can no longer be laid off simply because they marry or have children. Women comprise about half of all teachers in the public schools, with many more in the lower grades than in the higher grades. While more than 95% of those teaching in preschools and kindergartens are women, more...
Despite the evidence of women's achievements in school, the opportunities offered women in the educational system have been circumscribed by the view that women belong in the home and in traditionally female jobs. Analyses of textbooks, teaching materials, films and readers used in schools (see Curriculum Development) have consistently revealed tha...
Mary Burton persuades the Watt Institution and School of Arts to open its doors to women students in 1869 and goes on to become the first woman on the school's board of directors and a life governor of Heriot-Watt College.
September—The first entering coeducational class of Columbia College (1987) consists of 45 percent women, 55 percent men. Gillian Lindt, professor of religion, is appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the first woman to hold this position.
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Before the First World War, 75 percent were from the British Isles. In 1904, 2,523 women entered Canada as domestics. This figure rose to 4,467 in 1906 and continued to rise until the beginning of the Depression (1929).
