Conclusion

In 1893 the founder of the Instituto Libre de Enseñanza, Francisco Giner de los Ríos, declared that:

while many German physicians and statesmen, still dominated by the old ideas about the incapacity and the [special] mission of women, which in that country still persist although they have lost force in most civilized nations, oppose the admission of women to university study, one is cheered up by the constant advances of women’s higher education in the Anglo-Saxon countries. ¹