How many women academics 1912–76?

There is nothing new about women scholars. Hermione Grammatike, whose mummy rests at Girton College, Cambridge, ⁽¹⁾ was probably a woman of letters in Egypt in the first or second century AD. In the eighth century, Abbess Hild at Whitby and Leoba at Tauberbischofsheim drew students from far and wild (Stenton, 1957, pp.13–15). From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, women lectured in law (and served as judges) in Cordoba, Granada and Seville (Wallach, 1975, p.91, quoting Pettus). Throughout the late Middle Ages, women studied and graduated from Italian universities; Novella D’Andrea was in 1335 well known as a professor of canon law, and Cassandra Felice was probably dean or professor of jurisprudence at Padua in the fifteenth century. Other women studied and taught at Bologna and other Italian universities, and in Spanish, German and Dutch universities. Nor did women have such opportunities only in the Middle Ages: in 1678, Elena Lucrezia Piscopia Cornaro held a chair at the University of Padua (Jex Blake v. Senatus of University of Edinburgh, XI Macph. 784 at 789).