Pioneers of Women's and Girls' Education

Educators who opened teaching and higher education to women and girls in societies that had shut them out. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person a pioneer of female or women's education, or the first woman teacher or head of a school or college. It excludes founders of schools for other groups, who sit in their own groups. Their colleges and schools gave women access to degrees and teaching posts. Their schools and colleges gave women access to examinations, teaching posts and degrees that had been closed to them.