The lack of such legislation was attributed to the fact that many institutions mainly enrolled male students. The second major challenge for advocates of coeducation in the 1960s was that the existing legal framework and policies promoted single-gender education in which most boys attended dame schools in America. Since these schools were primarily for boys in order to prepare them for town schools, the educational institutions beyond these schools were exclusive to wealthy families, private, and isolated by sex. Coeducation supporters has to deal with this challenge because the existing legal framework did not allow girls to attend dame schools and mainly focused on preparing boys for admission to single-sex town education institutions. Moreover, when girls were eventually admitted to dame schools, they attended at different times of the day than their male counterparts or attended when boys were absent.

Generally, the major legal barrier that had to be overcome to include females in high schools in the United States was the lack of gender equality regulations and policies. As a result, co-educational schooling was regarded as a means of promoting and achieving gender equality in the country (Jackson & Ivinson, 2013). This would be achieved by not only providing equal opportunities to...

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