The Endowed Schools Act was enacted in 1869 in Britain. As concerns over female education arose, a clause was inserted later, providing that girls should share in the endowments. Section 12 referred to grammar schools for girls, but it did not establish the idea of equal shares of the funds: it only vaguely stated that girl schools would be provided for only when that could be done "conveniently". The first commissioners managed to create 27 grammar schools for women and to initiate proceedings that resulted in the founding of 20 more in the brief period between the passage of the act in 1869 and their dismissal in 1874.
Source: Prentice, Alison. "The Education of 19th Century British Women". History of Education Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 1982, pp. 215-219.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/367750. Accessed 21 Feb. 2021.
Source: Prentice, Alison. "The Education of 19th Century British Women". History of Education Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 1982, pp. 215-219.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/367750. Accessed 21 Feb. 2021.