Women's high school

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A women's high school was a grammar school for women's advanced training, where mainly natural science, housekeeping, socio-pedagogical and music-related subjects such as handicraft and cooking were taught. The first women's secondary schools as their own educational institution emerged in 1926 from the "general women's schools" founded in Prussia in 1908 and the upper lycees that were established in 1911 . The graduation after the 13th grade was the “Werkabitur”, which entitles the student to attend technical colleges and, from 1935, to pedagogical colleges . In 1938 this qualification was equated with the Abitur, but since the 1950s it has only been recognized as a technical college entrance qualification with entitlement to study at a university of education. In order to obtain the general university entrance qualification, the graduates had to take an additional examination.

The Austrian equivalent of the women's high school was the Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium . In addition to scientific subjects and only one foreign language, this should give the girls, above all, knowledge of childcare , tailoring , cooking and housekeeping . The Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium had been in eight classes since 1927. A second foreign language was offered from 1935. In 1962 it was renamed "Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium für Mädchen". It was not until 1988 that the gender-specific designation was given up for this type of school.

In the vernacular, graduating from a women's high school was referred to as a pudding diploma .

literature

  • Meyers encyclopaedic lexicon, Volume 9, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1973, corrected reprint 1980
  • Sister Tarcisia Lieske: 120-year history of the Ursulines of Osnabrück , in: Festschrift des Ursuline monastery St. Angela Osnabrück , Druckhaus Fromm Osnabrück, 1985
  • Gabriele Neghabian: Women's School and Women's Professions . A contribution to the educational and social history of Prussia (1908–1945) and North Rhine-Westphalia (1946–1974) , Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-412-01392-7

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  1. ↑ Sister Tarzisia Lieske, in: Festschrift des Ursulinenklosters St. Angela Osnabrück , 1985, p. 32.
  2. ↑ Research, Teaching, Protest - 100 Years of Academic Education for Women in Bavaria. (Pdf) In: www.lakof-bayern.mwn.de. Retrieved on April 17, 2020 (short version of the exhibition that opened in the Munich Residenz on July 2, 2003).