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Women at Cornell - the Myth of Equal Education

The history of women at Cornell is presented. First, the origins of coeducation at Cornell are explored. The commitment of the university to women as well as men is analyzed in the context of the social climate of the nineteenth century, particularly in central New York State, as well as the goals of those individuals who established the univerisity and shaped its mission in higher education. It is noted that Cornell was the first major institution in the eastern U.S. to admit women along with men (1872), to establish scholarships specifically for women (1884), to award the Doctor of Science degree to a woman in the U.S. (1895), to develop an innovative educational program for married women through reading courses for farmers' wives (1900), and to establish a state-supported College of Home Economics (1925). Second, "worthwhile" women graduates are identified including: Emily Dunnin Barrington '97, M.D. '01, first woman to win an internship at any New York hospital; Nora Stanton Blatch, the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering at Cornell; and Mary H. Donlon, L.L.B. '20, one of the few women appointed to a federal judgeship. (Spg).

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