Title

When it comes to diversity, UMaine could to better

Document Type

Opinion Piece

Authors

Anna Foster

Date

3-4-2019

Keywords

Feminism, Sexism

Disciplines

Higher Education | Race and Ethnicity | United States History

Files

Description

It’s Women’s History Month. The month where we all celebrate the strong women in our society who have helped paved the way to get women to where we are now.In the academic world, it wasn’t until 1840 that the first American woman, Catherine Brewer Benson, graduated with an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan Collegein Georgia. It took another 26 years for a black woman to earn a degree, and over 30 years for the first woman to earn a Ph.D.

Identifier

Racial Justice_Maine Campus_2021_01_16x

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Recommended Citation

Foster, Anna, "When it comes to diversity, UMaine could to better" (2019). University of Maine Racial Justice Collection. 184.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/184