Which Schools Produced Women

Which Schools Produced Women Chemistry Students  

Few of the first generation of women students at university studied science, and the majority of those came from a small number of schools.55 Janet Howarth reported on the secondary 

We have collected biographical information on the 898 women chemists who became Associates or Fellows of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and/or Fellows of the Chemical Society between 1880-1949, and we were able to ascertain the secondary schools attended for 284 of them. Our analysis differs from that of Howarth s in that we are looking at students who attended either Redbrick or Oxbridge universities and who had specifically chosen a chemistry career (Table 1.2). Nevertheless, there are strong similarities. In light of our earlier comments 

South Hampstead High School for Girls (GPDSC) 4 

It was not only the GPDSC schools that excelled in science. Malvern Girls College (also three students in our study) was another school proud of its science programme, as a former student, Grace Phillips, described in her biography of the Headmistress of the time, Iris Brooks  

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