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Women's College Benefits
Women's colleges prepare women for the many excellent roles they will
assume in life, by offering an excellent academic education, by challenging
them to become whatever they want to become and by connecting them into
a network that will serve these women for most of their professional and
personal lives. Going to a women's college greatly increases the chances
that a woman will become a leader in a traditionally male (and hence better
paid) field, that she will become a scientist or elected official and
that she will keep her sights high. Academically, professionally and personally,
the advantages of a women's college are hard to match in the co-ed world.
Studies have found that, by attending women's colleges,
women*:
- Participate more
fully in and out of class.
- Have more opportunities
to hold leadership positions and are able to observe women functioning
in top jobs (90% of the presidents and 55% of the faculty are women).
- Report greater
satisfaction than their coed counterparts with their college experience
in almost all measures - academically, developmentally, and personally.
- Develop measurably
higher levels of self-esteem than other achieving women in coeducational
institutions. After two years in coeducational institutions, women have
been shown to have lower levels of self-esteem than when they entered
college.
- Score higher on
standardized achievement tests.
- Tend to choose
traditionally male disciplines, like the sciences, as their academic
major, in greater numbers.
- Are more likely
to graduate.
- Are more successful
in careers; that is, they tend to hold higher positions, are happier
and earn more money.
- Tend to be more
involved in philanthropic activities after college.
* Women's College Coalition
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