•Increased number of girls in pubic schools and a
curriculum of domestic sciences.
•Attitudes toward gender found in basic ideological
commitments in religious
traditions.
•Women were viewed as dependent and irrational
beings.
•Girls were barred from public schooling from the 1630’s
to the eve of the Revolution
because:
1.It was not considered necessary to educate girls in an
agrarian and frontier
society when only a few people required education.
2.It was also the common belief the females were basically
unsuited for intellectual
activities.
•Affluent women were often tutored at home or private
academies (social graces).
•The only goal for most women was marriage.
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