female scholars
Learned women collectively
Female scholars are women engaged in academic research or advanced learning.
The phrase typically appears in discussions of gender representation in academia, historical exclusion from educational institutions, or achievements by women in particular fields: The conference highlighted female scholars in STEM.
Often replaced by "women scholars" in contemporary usage.
- sociologyStudy of human communities
- Toni Morrison"Song of Solomon"
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- bluestockingsIntellectual or literary women
- mathematicsScience of quantity and structure
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intellectual pursuit vs. anti-intellectualism
female scholarsanti-intellectuals
Those opposing learned discourse