Timeline of women's education

It includes key individuals, institutions, law reforms, and events that have contributed to the development and expansion of educational opportunities for women.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw significant growth in the establishment of girls' schools and women's colleges, particularly in Europe and North America.

Coeducation became more widespread, and women began to enter fields of study that were previously reserved for men.

Legislative measures, such as Title IX in the United States, were enacted to ensure equality in educational opportunities.

This timeline illustrates how women's education has evolved and reflects broader societal changes in gender roles and equality.

Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886: Anandibai Joshee from India (left) with Kei Okami from Japan (center) and Sabat Islambooly from Syria (right). All three completed their medical studies and each of them was the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine.
Sumerian clay tablet with the cuneiform inscription of Inanna and Ebih by Enheduanna
Spartan bronze figure of a running girl, wearing a single-shouldered chiton ( British Museum ).
Pages from the illuminated scroll of the 'Tale of Genji' Late Heian period, 12th century, Japan. Originally written by Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century.
12th-century manuscript of the Alexiad by Anna Komnene in Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana , Florence
14th-century illustration of William of Nottingham II lecturing at Oxford or Cambridge; one of his students is a woman wearing a cowl .
Ancrene Wisse; leaf from the Book of Hours
Real Colegio de Doncellas Nobles, a girls' school founded in Toledo, Spain, in 1551.
Representation of the official visit of Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon at the newly founded Maison royale de Saint-Louis of Saint Cyr, 1690 ca.