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Show "In Education the Improvement of Women Is Marked and Rapid" By CHARLOTTE PERKINS CI I.MAN, in Current History Magazine, In education the improvement of women is markcil and rapid. In school, college and university, in popular literature and lectures, this improvement pves reason for mental progress in both sexes; hut the pam of women is far jnvalcr in proportion. From being an almost uneducated uned-ucated class, supposed to have inferior brains, they have moved forward to such easy (ouahtv, in many cases to such superiority, that some now hold that the same if.urses of our college curricula, earlier considered beyond the pov,.r of the 'feminine mind," are now "too feminine." J "n-hh-v. ;civai:.v m education in ti.-t. be further .list mguishod by j its Laving i..f!i ir.nde tin !,t heavy ..pp..siti..,. most it:fer..sfmw record could b" mad., of this f ., t. as proucg the w.'ht "f masculine prejudice, Which SO lo-:g placed m.. ,y oUfaelc i tile uaV of foumiilm progress. There chii be no b.ioT any r. :.oj.,,!,l.- d-u!,t as to the e.ipia'ity of tin ! woman's mind with the ,u,m a:..!;!y to learn. Whether this is" aerom- i pained by an enual ability t . ir.w.t, to civnt,., to make new Ktps in the world's advance, earned be so swiftly cUlli-hcd, on account of the ecu- j diUuiial d.sadvaiitagiw of wmtu. I |