Lifelong Learn. 2013, 3, 26-41
Development of Higher Education of Women in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
The paper follows the development of conflicts of views on Czech girls’ education from its humble beginnings to the enactment of proper university education of women. In the paper, the author describes the development process of higher institutionalized education of women in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. It is a process beginning with girls learning to cook and manage the household as part of their higher education and ending with the legitimization of university education for women and women’s access to universities as full‑fledged students. The paper also focuses on conditions of establishing girls’ schools and education in these schools. The author also concentrates on an area closely interconnected with the education area, namely the possibility of self fulfilment in the public sector, professional realization. On the basis of historical and contemporary literature and sources, the author describes the difficulty of the process of women’s emancipation in the area of education.
