timeline

Russia: Russia got primary and high schools for girls

1786

Serbia: Girls were allowed to attend elementary schools with boys up until the fourth grade

1822

Greece: Greece got compulsory prime education for both boys and girls, in parallel with the foundation of the first private secondary educational schools for girls such as the Arsakeio

1834

Bulgaria: In Bulgaria the first secular girls school made education and the profession of teacher available for women

1841

Ottoman Empire: The first state school for girls is opened; several other schools for girls are opened during the following decades

1858

Russia: gymnasiums for girls

1858

Serbia: The inauguration of the Women’s High School in Belgrade, first high school open to women in Serbia (and the entire Balkans)

1863

Romania: The educational reform granted all Romanians access to education, which, at least formally, gave also females the right to attend school from elementary education to the university

1865

Switzerland: Zürich University formally open to women, though they had already been allowed to attend lectures a few years prior

1865

Croatia: The first high school open to females

1868

Ottoman Empire: The law formally introduce compulsory elementary education for both boys and girls

1869

Russia: University Courses for women are opened, which opens the profession of teacher, law assistant and similar lower academic professions for women (in 1876, the courses are no longer allowed to give exams, and in 1883, all outside of the capital is closed)

1869

Finland: Women allowed to study at the universities by dispensation (dispensation demand dropped in 1901)

1870

Ottoman Empire: The Teachers College for Girls are opened in Constantinople to educate women to professional teachers for girls school; the profession of teacher becomes accessible for women and education accessible to girls.

1870

Netherlands: Aletta Jacobs became the first female to get accepted at the University of Groningen

1871

Ottoman Empire: The first government primary school open to both genders.[61] Women’s Teacher’s Training School opened in Istanbul

1872

Germany: Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya became the first woman in modern Europe to gain a doctorate in mathematics, which she earned from the University of Göttingen in Germany.

1874

Switzerland: Stefania Wolicka-Arnd, a Polish woman, became the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Zurich in Switzerland

1875

Austria-Hungary: Women allowed to attend university lectures as guest auditors

1878

Bulgaria: Elementary education for both genders

1878

Serbia: Compulsory education for both genders

1882

Romania: Universities open to women

1882

Albania: The first Albanian language elementary school open to female pupils

1887

Sweden: Women eligible to join boards of public authority such as public school boards

1889

Sweden: First female professor: Sofia Kovalevskaya

1889

Greece: Universities open to women

1890

Albania: The first school of higher education for women is opened

1891

Germany: Women are allowed to attend university lectures, which makes it possible for individual professors to accept female students if they wish

1891

Ottoman Empire: Women are permitted to attend medical lectures at Istanbul University

1893

Poland: Kraków University open to women

1894

Austria-Hungary: Universities open to women

1895

Bulgaria: Universities open to women

1901

Russia: Universities open to women

1905

Serbia: Female university students are fully integrated in to the university system

1905

Grand Duchy of Finland ( Russian Empire) (first in the world to give women full political rights, i.e. both the right to vote and to run for office, first in Europe to give women the right to vote). The world’s first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year.

1906

Denmark: Women received voting rights (limited to local elections)

1908

Denmark: Women received voting rights (full voting rights)

1915

Greece: The first public secondary educational school for girls open

1917

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic: Women received voting rights

1917

Armenia: Women received voting rights

1917

Russian Republic: Women received voting rights

1917

Ukrainian People’s Republic: Women received voting rights

1917

Crimean People’s Republic (1917–1918): Women received voting rights

1917

Germany: Women received voting rights

1918

Hungary: Women received voting rights (full suffrage granted in 1945)

1918

Moldavian SSR (Soviet Union): Women received voting rights

1918

Albania: Women received voting rights

1920

Romania: Women received voting rights (limited to local elections only, with restrictions)

1929

Turkey: Women received voting rights (limited to municipal elections)

1929

Turkey: Equal right to university education for both men and women

1930

Turkey: Women received voting rights (parliamentary elections)

1934

Bulgaria: Women received voting rights (married, divorced or widowed women only)

1938

Romania: Women received voting rights (women are granted suffrage on equal terms with men with restrictions on both men and women; in practice the restrictions affected women more than men)

1939

Bulgaria: Women received voting rights (full rights)

1944

Yugoslavia: Women received voting rights

1945

Romania: Women received voting rights

1946

Greece: Women received voting rights

1952