... determine the access to further or higher education for most school leavers, it is interesting to note that the number of females who receive acceptance for university is dramatically lower than that of the males. This leaves us asking the question 'why give the opportunity to a person less capable?' the answer: inexplicable. During the Victorian era - 1837 to 1901 - a woman's place was indefinitely in the home. The transformation of Britain into an industrial nation had profound consequences for the ways in which women were to be idealised. Domesticity and motherhood were portrayed as a sufficient and emotional fulfilment. New kinds of work and new kinds of urban living prompted a change in the ways in which appropriate male and female roles were perceived. In particular, the notion of separate spheres - woman in the private sphere of the home and hearth, man in the public sphere of ...

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