The Gabriele Possanner State Prize (German: Gabriele-Possanner-Staatspreis) is a state award for feminist research in Austria, named for Gabriele Possanner. It was established in 1997, and is awarded every second year by the Federal Ministry of...
Gabriele Possanner (27 January 1860 – 14 March 1940) was the first woman medical doctor to practice medicine in Austria.
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat (born Marie-Daniela Tugendhat; 2 August 1946 – 17 September 2025) was an Austrian art historian. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to a family of wealthy Jewish-Czech textile manufacturers from Brno, who had fled the Nazi...
Elisabeth Holzleithner (born 1970) is an Austrian university professor specializing in legal philosophy and gender studies at the University of Vienna where she heads the Institute of Legal Philosophy. Considered to be one of the leading scholars in...
Edith Saurer (20 August 1942 – 5 April 2011) was an Austrian historian, university professor at the University of Vienna, scientific author, and publisher. She is regarded as a central cofounder and advocate of feminist historiography in Austria....
Ina Wagner (born 1946) is an Austrian physicist, computer scientist and social scientist. She is an emeritus professor of computer science at TU Wien (Vienna), where she was active from 1987 until 2011. Wagner completed a doctorate in nuclear...
Elke Krasny (born 1965 in Vienna, Austria) is a cultural and architectural theorist, urban researcher, curator, and author. Her work specializes in architecture, contemporary art, urbanism, feminist museology, histories and theories of curating,...
Hannelore Eva Kreisky (née Zgraja; 8 September 1944 – 14 August 2024) was an Austrian political scientist and jurist.
This Timeline of women's education is an overview of the history of education for women worldwide. It includes key individuals, institutions, law reforms, and events that have contributed to the development and expansion of educational opportunities...
