ABSTRACT
Although change has been slow, it has been steady. The suffragette move - ment was just one of the major sociocultural phenomena of the twentieth century that led to unparalleled educational and employment opportunities for women, and a resultant increase in the number of women working as professional composers. Although university music departments still reported women as the minority among composition students at the turn of the twenty-first century, the historical face of the compositional world had undoubtedly begun to change.
