Abstract

The procedure used in this study will be to survey the general social and cultural conditions in the United States to determine whether there was a general philosophy of the status of women; second, to study the sociological conditions in the Mexican province of Texas, in the Republic, and in the State, and the factors which controlled education for women; third, to study the changing aims and objectives of women's education, and the changing curriculum, extracurricular changes, graduation requirements; fourth, recent social and cultural trends effecting a change in the education of women; fifth, to determine how higher education for women has been helpful in facilitating women's changing functions in society.