Why Female Colleges are the Best Four Years Investment for Girls?

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Why female colleges are the best 4 years investment for girls? ‘Keep Wellesley as a special place as it is, keep it as a place where young women can feel as free as we felt to explore…(Clinton, 2013)” Those were the words from the former first lady and actual U.S secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Female colleges from Clinton’s perspective is that they are magnificent places where women freely develop leadership roles without being distract from the male presence. These single sex colleges offer a huge range of development areas for women in order to become them excellent leaders and efficient professionals at whichever area they wish to perform. The issue is not to compete between the education quality offered by female colleges and coed-schools. Both of them offer a good educational curriculum, but they might offer a different environment which influences the skill development of girls. Hence, by analyzing a variety of results from students coming from women colleges allowed to state that Female colleges are empowering effective tools for women, because they help them to fully develop their academic, communication and leaderships skills oppressed by society. “High percentage of female students are concerned about their body appearance, female colleges carries with the consequence of promoting a physical and academic competition among their students” (Spencer, 2013). There is social pressure everywhere, perhaps by thinking of a society full of women, as in a female college, we tend to believe that there is a more complex physical appearance peer pressure among students. The truth is that in a society where there is female and males interacting, females tend to spend more time trying to excel their physical appearance i... ... middle of paper ... ...3. Web. 12 Feb 2014. Donner, Francesca. "Women’s College Alumnae among Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women."WomensCollege.org. the Women's College Coalition, 19 Aug 2009. Web. 12 Feb 2014. Spencer, Bettina. “Only Girls Who Want Fat Legs Take the Elevator: Body Image in Single-Sex and Mixed-Sex Colleges”. Sex Roles. 69.7/9 (2013): 469-479. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. Society of Women Engineers. "Women in Engineering”. College of Engineering. The University of Oklahoma, 8 Jan 2014. Web. 12 Feb 2014. Picho, Katherine. "Culture, Context and Stereotype Threat: A Comparative Analysis of Young Ugandan Women in Coed and Single-Sex Schools...” Academic Search Premier. 105.1 (2012): 52-63. Web. 14 Feb. 2014. Thompson, J.S. The Effect of Single-Sex Secondary Schooling On Women’s Choice of College Major. Sociological Perspectives, 46, 257-278 (2013).Web. 12 Feb 2014.

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