Secondary and higher education for women Female education did not always exist, people felt that females did not need to be educated because they were meant to stay home, cook, clean and care for the children. Young girls who were the daughters of wealthy men got an education just because of the significance of their father’s name. Men and young boys were educated because the men were the people in the marriage who brought home money from the job they got after being educated. Women were just looked at as property, they were not considered a person that had a voice or a say in anything. They were just there to care for the kids and to take care of their husband. Women’s secondary education was so poorly thought of during the time period …show more content…
Women did not know any other life than this one. It was an abnormal thing for a woman to be educated before the 1920’s. Men viewed most women as people to repopulate and create more men for the world. Girls were taught the bare minimum in education; to read but only if there was any left over room in young boys classes. When women were allowed to receive an education, the women who were educated between 1870’s and 1890’s are considered the first generation of women to receive any type of education. After women of the first generation received their education, women were not going to go on without the option to receive and education any longer. In 1900 very few women were workingwomen outside of the home. During WWI and WWII, the amount of women that held a job outside of the home was a very significant number and a very dramatic increase. The percentage of women that had a job increased because their husbands went off to war and the women had to fill in their jobs at the