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Womens University

Womens University: Aarhus University 1928-2000

The project


The “Womens University” research project focuses on women’s path to higher education in the 20th and 21st centuries, and on how the increasingly academic nature of vocational training courses has proved to be a stepping-stone along this path for women in Denmark. The research project adopts a historical perspective in considering the fact that women now constitute a majority of the students at Danish universities, and the fact that women in Denmark achieve a higher level of education than men.

This historical perspective is unfolded in two projects: a study of developments since the 1990s, involving the introduction of professional Bachelor’s degree programmes; and a study of selected vocational training courses at Aarhus University from the years around World War II. These studies place the focus on women’s educational strategies, experiences and memories.

The project partners     


  • Maria Tamboukou, Professor in Feminist Studies, University of East London
  • Bente Rosenbeck, Professor emerita, Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab, KU
  • Christian Larsen, Seniorforsker, Rigsarkivet
  • Hanne Caspersen, Cand.mag. i Historie og dansk, censorformand fra 2012-2022
  • Susanne Malchau Dietz, Sygeplejehistoriker, ph.d. og freelance forfatter
  • Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, Professor emerita, Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Oslo
  • Katrin Hjort, Professor emerita, Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Syddansk Universitet (1951-2021)
  • Joyce Goodman, Professor of History of Education, University of Winchester

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