How Gender Ideology Completely Destroyed Women's Colleges

I know I have mentioned women’s colleges in prior articles.  However, the absurdity of a fat MAN winning a beauty pageant means that women’s colleges have to get an article of their own.  And that man didn’t win just any beauty pageant.  He was a local Miss America pageant.

Why are their women’s colleges to begin with?  Because from the colonial period, colleges admitted men only. Until 1835, no college in the United States admitted women.  In the 1830s, a number of women’s colleges opened up, and Oberlin College was founded as a co-educational institution.  In the 1870s, Cornell University decided to admit women, while the other 7 Ivy Leagues would not admit women.  The Seven Sisters, a women’s college version of the Ivy League, formed.  The seven sisters were Bryn Mawr College, Wellesley College, Vassar College, Radcliffe College, Barnard College, Smith College, and Mt. Holyoke College.

While some women went to women’s colleges because they wanted to be teachers or nurses, which were the few educated professions for women at that time, others went to women’s colleges because they wanted to look for a husband.  If a woman got to attend the Seven Sisters, she could look for a husband who was going to go into law or politics from the Ivy League.