ODESSA HIGHER COURSES FOR WOMEN: SPECIALIZATION AND TRAINING PROCESS (1910-1917)
The author examines the development of specialization in higher education for women in Odessa during 1910-1917 period. This research subject represents the progressive development of higher education for woman in Odessa, including upgrade of such training, as well as scientific community, government agencies and local authorities activity on building this system. The author exposes a comprehensive analysis of women higher education development patterns and improvement process, highlighting approaches to addressing women’s issues in higher education, both worldwide and in the Russian Empire, with comparative study of the process differences. The study used archival documents. The basic problem of woman higher education development and the ratio of governmental and public bodies’ contribution to the process of developing this system are analysed. Also considered is the upgrading of educational process at the Higher Educational Courses for Women in Odessa and the Higher Medical Courses for Woman by those establishments’ contribution to the training of professional staff specialized in natural and medical sciences for the municipal secondary education and health care systems in the city of Odessa and Ukraine. In this research, the conclusions about the impact of higher education for women onto the further development of educational, scientific processes and those institutions’ graduates specialization, with respect to that their active work in education, health and science fields actually equalized gender inequalities characteristic to the former territories of the Russian Empire. The Higher Woman Courses system actually became the basis for further development and Ukrainianization of educational system, whose graduates had their own place in the education system further promoting its feministic component increase thus rendering equal right and access to studies really actual principle.