A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historiae Literarum et Artium, 1. (Szeged, 1997)

Cornelius, Deborah S.: Women in the Interwar Populist Movement: The Szeged Youth

to prepare themselves for practical careers. The three women, born in 1911 and 1912, were among those encouraged by the reform of women's education in 1926 under Minister of Religion and Public Education Count Kuno Klebelsberg, which liberalized the access of women to the universities and greatly expanded their career choices.

6 Although prime consideration was still given to qualified male students, women were now able to enroll in some faculties from which they had previously been excluded.

7 The percentage of women enrolled in universities and other schools of higher education increased every year in the period after the war, going from 9% in 1923 to 13.6% in 1930.

8 In 1929, of the 15,497 students enrolled in universities and other schools of higher education, 2,067 were women.

9 Hungarian women's enrollment still ranked relatively low in a comparison of twelve European countries in 1930. Hungary was one of the five countries in which the percentage of women was under 20%, including Czech-Slovakia, Germany, Italy and Sweden. One explanation was that other countries tended to allow women in all faculties except for law, while Hungary admission of women was still the exception. In 1930 the highest proportion of women were in the Faculty of Philosophy with almost 50%, while pharmacy had 37.4%, and economic sciences 14.7%. Although it broadened women's access to higher education, the reform of 1926 also made clear women's secondary position. Prime consideration was still given to providing places for qualified male students. Limitations on women's enrollment can be compared to those placed on Jewish students by the so-called „numerus clausus," which restricted the number of Jewish students in departments with full enrollment. Numbers of women were not only limited, but women were totally excluded from certain departments. After 1926 women could enroll in limited numbers in the university faculties of Reformed and Lutheran Theology, Medicine, Philosophy, Philology and History, Math and Natural Sciences. They were excluded from the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of the Faculty of Low and Political Science. Women were not admitted to the engineering departments of the Royal Joseph Technical University, except as guest students, with the exception of the department of architecture, since the quota was not always filled by men. In the Faculty of Economic Sciences women were admitted to the departments of agriculture and commerce without any limitation but were excluded from departments of economics, administration, and foreign affairs. They could be enrolled in the teachers training de6 Women had first been admitted to universities in Hungary in 1895, but only in the faculties of philosophy, medicine, and pharmacy, and there „with certain limitations." 7 Women had first been admitted to the university in 1895 in the faculties of philosophy, medicine, and pharmacy. After the reform of 1926 women in limited numbers could also enroll in the Faculties of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Reformed and Lutheran Theology, Agriculture and Commerce, architecture, and as special students in the engineering departments. Women were still excluded from certain departments, including Law and Political Science, Economics, Administration, Foreign Affairs, and Roman Catholic Theology. (Julius Kornis, Education in Hungary, New York: Columbia University, 1932. 142-143.) 8 Unless otherwise noted statistics have been taken from „A főiskolai hallgatók száma és megoszlása az 1925/26-1930/31 tanévekben." Magyar statisztikai közlemények (88. kötet, 1930/31) 9 Unless otherwise noted, statistics have been taken from „A főiskolai hallgatók száma és megoszlása az 1925/26-1930/31 tanévekben." Magyar statisztikai közlemények (88. kötet, 1930/31) 51