sentences:  Pierce did not believe women should enter the all-male colleges or professions, but believed their work as mothers and in benevolent, charitable and reform organizations was equally, if not more, important, than the work of men.The Litchfield Female Academy had an academic curriculum which developed and grew throughout its thirty-one year history.In 1792 the school differed little from the large number of small female academies opening throughout the country, especially in the northeastern states.