Original sentence: A variety of gender-segrated women's institutions were founded, notably the Seven Sisters of New England.Before coeducation became predominant, most important institutions of higher education restricted their enrollment to men.Examples of this parallelism include Radcliffe College at Harvard University in Massachusetts and Barnard College at Columbia University in New York.Some institutions refused to integrate fully, but were willing to educate women in closely associated schools--a variation on the later "separate but equal" standard of racially segregated schools followed in some parts of the US.Some of these "girls schools" are now coeducational (e.Vassar), others are not (e.Women were educated in all-female schools, if at all
Edited sentence: (Nelson: "Ah-ha.Before coeducation became standard, most important institutions of higher education were restricted to men only, and women were educated in all-female schools, if at all.Examples of this include Radcliffe College at Harvard University in Massachusetts and Barnard College at Columbia University in New York.Furthermore, a variety of sex-segrated women's institutions were founded, notably the Seven Sisters of New England.Some institutions could not bear to integrate fully, but were willing to educate women in parallel--a variation on the "separate but equal" standard of racial segregation in the South.Some of these "girls schools" are now integrated (Vassar), others are not (Wellesley)