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May 15, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Women's Access to Higher Education: A Comparative Historical Analysis Across White, Black, Indigenous, and Latina Experiences

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BABoudour Abdalhak

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  • This paper explores the historical factors influencing women's access to higher education in the United States, focusing on race and gender.
  • Historical comparative analysis across different racial groups
  • Examination of institutional and cultural barriers
  • Incorporation of feminist and intersectional perspectives
  • Identified varying levels of access among White, Black, Indigenous, and Latina women across historical periods
  • Highlighted the role of intersecting systems of power in shaping educational access
  • Argued that access was a contested process, not a straightforward narrative of progress

Abstract

This paper examines women’s access to higher education in the United States through institutional, cultural, feminist, and intersectional historical perspectives. Drawing on scholarship related to race, gender, colonialism, and educational inequality, the analysis compares the experiences of White, Black, Indigenous, and Latina women across different historical periods. The paper argues that women’s access to higher education was not a uniform story of progress, but a contested process shaped by overlapping systems of power, exclusion, and historical inequality.

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Boudour Abdalhak (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a06b9e2e7dec685947ac873https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20161493
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