Women's colleges in the United States

the women’s suffrage movement and its contributors Alice Paul stated, “I always feel...the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” Thousands of women were behind the passing and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Burns, a close friend of Paul’s. However, Paul was being too modest in her previous statement. She contributed much more than a little stone to the mosaic that was the women’s…

To what extent did Title IX affect a woman's experience in college? Before June 23, 1972, it was very unlikely to see a women playing sports in college. There was no such thing as an athletic scholarship for a female. Being sexually harassed or raped? It was passed only as a boy being a boy. There was no one to report it to in college let alone any action plan to stop this from happening to women in college. Women were rejected from colleges based on solely on their gender. It was believed that…

American change the way many structures grown and the United State begin to change to accommodate those measures. In the 1880s, the beginning of World War I, a new wave of immigrants from the peasant population of eastern and southern Europe settle in American cities (Stubblefield & Keane, 1994). This new movement allowed for whites and African Americans to begin to move to urban areas within the United States. The need to increase…

For many years, college athletes have been the face of many prestigious schools. Being a college athlete meant you were good enough to get a scholarship, which meant you had a chance make it to the big leagues. I grew up watching basketball and football like it was second nature, it resulted in wanting to be like the superstars on television. The children who grew up like me dream to be an all-American college athlete and become that superstar in the big leagues. The NCAA has been around since…

achieving equality (“Women’s Rights” n.pag.). The wage gap has not changed since a decade. Finn confirms, “women earn on average 80 percent of what men earn” (n.pag.). Women earn around seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man makes; therefore, earning twenty-three cents less than men, women will lose…

In the past 200 years, the United States of America has grown exponentially in several different ways. One of the most prominent is the change in women's’ rights. Today, no one would not be surprised to see a woman attend college to later become a career professional. Sadly, women in the United States began in a world where they were not able to get a job other than taking care of their own household; education and professional careers were completely off limits. Through several significant…

As it states on the History section of the WNBA website, the concept of women’s basketball was approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24th of 1996; this was the established of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The WNBA begin play in June of 1997. Shortly after the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a women’s basketball league Val Ackermann was named the first president of the WNBA on August 7th, 1996. Before women’s basketball was officially established in…

Is TITLE IX helping Women’s Sports Why have women joined more sports? Women have joined more sports since 1972 when TITLE IX first started. Title IX states no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation. So it’s clear that although some believe it’s not helping women’s sports. Title IX advances women’s sports for two main reasons. First, more women participated in the Olympic games since 1972. The second reason is importantly, equitable facilities had…

prisons in the United States but only about 170 of them are women’s prisons. There is little resemblance between men and women’s prisons because of the different needs and mentalities that are often present. The main difference between a men’s prison and a women’s prison is the security level. For example, very few women’s prisons have tall stone walls, guard towers, or razor wire barriers. Women’s prisons tend to resemble low level or medium level men’s prisons. They often look like a college…

Our readings “I Was One of the First to See Daylight”: Black Women at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities in Florida since 1959 and Rape and the inner lives of Black women in the Middle West: Preliminary thoughts on the culture of dissemblance when are given major insight on African American women. These two articles represent to topics that continuously create barriers between African American women and success: education and society’s misconception of their sexuality. We will be…