The mountain of gold might have been more important than our records, but that woman professor isn't.

Harvard Law School has never had a tenured black woman professor.

In 1973, Riley became the first full woman professor at Bowdoin College where she worked until 1981.

In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university.

Maathai was also the first woman professor the University of Nairobi, where she taught veterinary medicine.

Crosby was the first woman full professor of the medical school at the University of Michigan.

Anderson was the first woman professor of paediatrics in the United Kingdom.

Two years later the Sorbonne gave her her his chair, making her its first woman professor.

There was only one woman professor, Mary Doyle, and many of the women gravitated to her classes in property and environmental law.

Loder became the first woman professor of harmony at the Royal Academy.