Posted
November 13, 2013
Way
back in the first half of the 1700s, Dorothea Erxleben fought for
women's rights to attend universities.
It's
sad to think that in some places of the world, the struggle for girls
and women to have equal access to schools and universities continues.
However, we can look on the positive side: in many, many places the
world over, the rights Erxleben fought for have been realized!
Erxleben
was born in Germany on this date in 1715. Her father taught her
medicine while she was still quite young, and in 1742 she wrote a
tract arguing that women should be allowed to attend university. She
was given special permission to attend the University of Halle by
Frederick the Great, and in 1754 Erxleben became the first female
medical doctor in Germany.
Nowadays,
about one third of the medical doctors in the world are women, and
about half of the medical school graduates in the U.S. are now women
(up from a third in 1990)—which probably means that 20 years from
now about half the practicing doctors will be women.
The
tables have turned...
Interestingly
enough, there are more women in American colleges now than there are
men. Most colleges have something like a 55-45 split in favor of
women, but some have more like a 60-40 split, and some have an
amazing 70-30 split!
For
more than a decade, universities and journalists and others have been
scratching their heads trying to think of ways to lure young men into
college!
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