An article from the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE, found here, details positive findings about online education, namely that it can ensure better success for women in the classroom:

Distance education has the potential to contribute to the enhancement of women's development by overcoming not only temporal and spatial barriers but familial commitments as well. It brings education to their home and allows women to learn at their individual pace, seek skills for individual development and at the same time, enables them to fulfill family responsibilities. An important element of distance education is the provision of the learner support system that provides students the ACCESS to learning resources and means of communication that would facilitate the array of educational activities and exposure to various other guidance and advisories.As an instructor who teaches online classes, I can testify that it is absolutely true that many of my students who are mothers would not be able to take college courses if they did not have the online option.

Though these same benefits can apply to anyone, and every student deserves the best opportunities, I believe that women, especially single mothers, are a group deserving more studies of this kind. I look forward to developments in this area.