Vision, career paths, and work of academic pioneers - against all odds. This thoroughly researched book traces the innovative and courageous life designs of the first working female academics who strongly advocated for their rights in all three German-speaking countries at the beginning of the last century. Among them are women who conquered male-dominated fields as architects, lawyers, zoologists, pastors, or mathematicians, and founded pioneering women's organizations such as the first Soroptimist and Zonta clubs, as well as the first associations for female entrepreneurs. "There are fourteen hundred students here, but so far there are only three ladies..." Margarete von Wrangell.