In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America
- ISBN-10
- 0300036396
- ISBN-13
- 9780300036398
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Barbara Miller Solomon
Description
Traces the history of the struggle of women to achieve equality in American colleges from Colonial times to the present
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