Reform in Education for Women


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Reform in Education for Women

Girls begin going to school: Many of the reformers felt that education for girls was necessary in order to improve the condition of women. Vidyasagar in Calcutta and many other reformers in Bombay set up schools for girls. When the first schools were opened in the mid- nineteenth century, many people were afraid of them. They feared that schools would take girls away from home, prevent them from doing their domestic duties. Therefore, throughout the nineteenth century, most educated women were taught at home by liberal fathers or husbands

 
 


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