Returning to the question of "Why All-Women's Schools?"

<p>So anyone have the link (or the quote) on the engineering program?</p>

<p>“The first undisputed college degrees granted to women were by Oberlin (a coed school) in 1841.”</p>

<p>Lest one think the education was “comparable”, the women were assigned to doing laundry and ironing for the male students, and most of the classes were not coed. It was the college’s hope that the future ministers being produced at Oberlin would find marital partners there before they went out to preach the Gospel. Women did not take the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew taught in the Collegiate Institute, but were rather confined to the “Ladies Course”. </p>

<p>One of the first women graduates was Lucy Stone, an extraordinary abolitionist, who was asked to write a commencement address for the graduating class of 1847. She, however, refused, as, being a woman, she wouldn’t be allowed to deliver it.</p>