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A Historical Study on the career opportunities of Women Students in British Higher Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18530639
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Educaion
Research InstitutionNishikyushu University

Principal Investigator

KAGAWA Setsuko  Nishikyushu University, Department of Health and Welfare Science, Professor (00185711)

Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,670,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
KeywordsHistory of Education / Great Britain / gender / higher education / career opportunity / female student / medicine / teaching profession / イギリス教育史 / 女子高等教育
Research Abstract

In this study, I clarified the career opportunities of women students in British higher education from 1880 to1914. Before 1960s, all the universities in Great Britain shut their doors for women, and women had no chance entering into learning professions. However after 1870, not only new civic universities, but also old universities began to accept women as formal students, and the number of women student increased rapidly up to the twentieth century. As a result, by 1930 the number of female student amounted to nearly one quarter of all university students in Great Britain.
After graduating the universities, most of them entered into teaching profession. Why they did so, and how they did their work, how long they continued their job, and when they married, if any. These were the key questions of my study. As to the university students, I did a case study on Girton College, Cambridge. Through analyzing the Girton College Register published in 1848, I found out some features of their stu … More dents.
(1) Most of the early student entered into teaching profession.
(2) Others had no working experience and got married a few years after graduation.
(3) Those who entered the teaching profession started their careers as assistant mistress at secondary schools for girls, and gradually promoted into headmistress, and continued their profession for more than 30years.
(4) Those who married didn't do paid work, but most of them were occupied some voluntary work in the local community.
On the other hand, some aspiring women entered into medical profession. In order to examine the medical career, I did a case study of London School of Medicine for Women, (LSMW) founded in 1874. Through analyzing the annual reports and magazines of LSMW, I clarified some features of career attainment of early women doctors.
(1) Most of the early female doctors worked at hospitals for women and children, mostly founded by pioneer medical women.
(2) After 1880, a great number of female doctors began to move into foreign countries, especially colonial districts such as India and China.
Generally, female doctors were obliged to work in marginal places in whole the medical world, but gender boundaries of medicine changed little by little during the first half of the twentieth century. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2008 2007 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) Presentation (6 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] イギリスにおける女性医師養成の嚆矢-ロンドン女子医学校1874年~1884年-2007

    • Author(s)
      香川せつ子
    • Journal Title

      西九州大学・佐賀短期大学紀要 第37号

      Pages: 43-52

    • NAID

      110006392719

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Opening the doors and Conflicts of Social Forces, Showado 2008, forthcoming

    • Author(s)
      Setsuko Kagawa, Sadae Kawamura
    • Journal Title

      Women and Higher Education

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 世紀転換期イギリスにおける大学卒女性のキャリア-ケンブリッジ大学ガートン・カレッジの場合2007

    • Author(s)
      香川 せつ子
    • Organizer
      第59回大会大学史研究セミナー
    • Place of Presentation
      東京工業大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-16
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Career Opportunities of Women Graduates at the turn of the Ninetieth Century : A Case Study of Girton College, Cambridge, '59th Research Seminar on History of Universities2007

    • Author(s)
      Setsuko Kagawa, Sadae Kawamura
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-16
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 世紀転換期イギリスにおける大学卒女性のキャリアーケンブリッジ大学ガートン・カレッジの場合2007

    • Author(s)
      香川 せつ子
    • Organizer
      第59回大学史研究セミナー
    • Place of Presentation
      東京工業大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-12-16
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 世紀転換期イギリスにおける大学卒女性のキャリア-ケンブリッジ大学を中心にして2007

    • Author(s)
      香川 せつ子
    • Organizer
      九州教育学会第59回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      琉球大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-11-24
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Career Opportunities of Women Graduates at the turn of the Ninetieth Century : A Case Study of Cambridge University', 59th Annual Meeting of Kyushu Society for Educational Research2007

    • Author(s)
      Kagawa, Setsuko
    • Year and Date
      2007-11-24
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 世紀転換期イギリスにおける大学卒女性のキャリアーケンブリッジ大学を中心にして2007

    • Author(s)
      香川 せつ子
    • Organizer
      九州教育学会第59回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      琉球大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-11-24
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 女性と高等教育-機会拡張と社会的相克2008

    • Author(s)
      香川 せつ子, 河村 貞枝(共編著)
    • Total Pages
      340
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 女性と高等教育-機会拡張と社会的相克2008

    • Author(s)
      香川 せっ子・河村 貞枝(共編著)
    • Total Pages
      340
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report

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