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May I Learn Too? Barriers Placed on Women in the Education System  

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May I Learn Too? Barriers Placed on Women in the Education System Name: Tavia Ferreira Student #: 203992377 Assignment: #2 Question: #1 ~ In relation to the works of Wollstonecraft Course Director: John Spencer Tutorial Leader: Tasha Henry Course: Education and Social Change Date: Thursday January 18, 2001 Throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, women have been placed at a disadvantage involving the issue of their education. The issues of what subject's women should and shouldn't be taught are often involved in heated debates present in today's time. Mary Wollstonecraft (1983), a woman's theorist during the turn of the 19th century was one of the major advocates in the battle for gender equity within the educational system. The construction and institutionalization of her theories of educating the young female mind in regards to intellect, physical activity, and preparedness for life in society after completion of formal education; have proved as a stepping stone in the fight to receive an...

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