«Допустить к лекциям наравне с мужчинами». Статистика женского среднего и высшего образования в начале XX века

Abstract

The proposed article attempts to expand modern ideas about the scale of development of women's education in Russia on the eve of the events of 1917. The results obtained during the analysis of several hundred archival and published sources fill in the gaps in statistical information reflecting the development of education in the pre-revolutionary period, and eliminate inaccuracies and errors encountered in research. Such an expansion of the informational boundaries of women's education will be presented by examples of the dynamics of the growth in the number of secondary and higher educational institutions and the number of women studying in them, the accessibility of these educational institutions for representatives of different social groups. The structure of the presentation of factual material makes it possible to characterize the dynamics and direction of the government's efforts in the field of women's education in the Russian Empire. The proposed data are of an overview and statistical nature and are preliminary results of the conducted research. The results presented for the first time allow us to take a fresh look not only at the history of the development of women's education in our country, to assess the scale of this development, but also to revise the well-established cliches about the infringement of women's rights to receive secondary and higher education.