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Different paths to the public: European women, educational opportunity, and expertise, 1890–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2005

MARYNEL RYAN
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Minnesota.

Abstract

This article describes a comparison of two groups of women, one German and one French, who were able to use the expanding educational opportunities for women during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to forge a new path to public influence. The comparison highlights the different socio-political and institutional contexts of Imperial Germany and Third Republic France, in order to explain the very different career patterns of women with similar research interests: national economists who trained in Berlin and lawyers who trained in Paris. Although the greater emphasis is on the German case, I explore the possibilities for (and limitations to) women's claims to public influence in both contexts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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