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Document 2
Madame Calderon de la Barca,
wife of the Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, 19th century
2a. According to the document, what is the difference between the education of Mexican boys
and of Mexican girls? [1
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2a. State one
reason for this difference. [1]
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Reproduced from the August 2001
Global History and Geography Regents Exam
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You ask me how Mexican women are educated . . . When very young, they occasion-
ally attend the schools, where boys and girls learn to read in common, or any other
accomplishment that the old women can teach them; but at twelve they are already
considered too old to attend these [schools] . . . . It frequently happens that the least
well-informed girls are the children of the cleverest men, who, keeping to the customs .
. . are content if (their daughters) confess regularly, attend church constantly . . .