Somerville Magazine 2020

Page 22

22 Somerville Magazine

Meet the pioneers: 100 years of degrees for women

One hundred years since women won the right to graduate with full degrees from the University of Oxford, author Jane Robinson (English, 1978) looks back on how Somerville’s patient, optimistic and occasionally ‘bloody-minded’ pioneers won the argument for inclusive education.


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