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Prior to, and for some time after the Revolutionary War, America's colleges and universities catered almost exclusively to males, following the British and European model. These colleges and universities only gradually opened to co-ed participation at a time when, generally, women seeking to extend their educations would either attend finishing schools, equating to the final years of high school, or a type of women's vocational school: teachers, nursing or (women's) business schools that were designed for female students and task-oriented in outcome. For these, typically, curricula would be designed as two-year courses, providing teachers, nurses, typists, and secretaries for an expanding country where, still, occupational sex roles were culturally enforced, if not as a matter of legislation.[1]