LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Aukštasis išsilavinimas; Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė; Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, aukštasis išsilavinimas, moterys,; Moterys; 19 amžius; Century; Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė; Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, higher education, women, the nineteenth; Higher education; The nineteenth; Women.
ENPaper addresses Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė's attitude towards women's higher education. It also presents the idea of the founding of women's higher education courses and describes women's opportunities to receive higher education in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. Women's increased possibilities to seek higher education are linked to their awakening aspirations not only to step beyond the private space of their homes, but also to choose a lifestyle that would satisfy their personal preferences. The paper overviews women's opportunities for education in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century in Western Europe and the tsarist Russian Empire, and revises the validity of Bite's aspirations to study mathematics at university and aspirations of all Lithuanian women. [From the publication]