Introduction: Although higher education has been available in the United Kingdom for a long time, women were not as privileged as men to access education equal. Brown (2011C) notes that 70% of men were educated, compared to only 55% of women in 1851. Today, the situation seems incompatible with the past since there are 10% more women than men entering at university in 2010-2011. . Additionally, there appear to be almost twice as many female students as male students. (Ratcliffe, 2013). This essay aims to give a timeline of the key events that led to equality for women in higher education as well as the era when degrees were awarded to women at Oxford and Cambridge.History and statisticsAccording to research presented by Brown (2011C), the population number of women gradually increased from 1,036 per 1,000 men in 1821 to 1,054 per 1,000 men in 1871. This meant that there would be single women who would have to support their own needs. Women had very limited career options and most of them depended on being a governess to earn a living. Gillard (2011) notes that children received a similar education to boys before the introduction of the Education Act 1870, which emphasized a curriculum in which girls would be expected to learn domestic skills. Women's education in the early Victorian era was inadequate and inconsistent, as girls were taught by untrained private governesses. (Gillard, 2011)The Beginning of the MovementJones (2012) mentioned that the Ladies of Langham Place group believed that educating middle-class women was a difficulty because they were taught by untrained governesses. The Langham Place group consisted of Emily Davies, Elizabeth Garrett and Millicent Garrett and other women. This group analyzed various......important paper backgrounds......s. To work within word limits, I also had to choose events that seemed important to me. I had to narrow down the events I wanted to include in my essay and the important people who contributed to change. I also couldn't talk about other universities that restricted the admission of women. In conclusion, equality for women in higher education has not been easy and quick. It was the hard work of many women. It also meant a change in people's mentality. Women's degrees were recognized by Cambridge in 1948, more than a hundred years after the movement began in 1843. As the research in this essay shows, people in the past were prejudiced against women gaining access to higher education. Oxford and Cambridge, being the best universities in the country, did not understand the importance of educating women and men on equal terms until the mid-s 1900..