The goal of this thesis is to discover and describe what education looked like for women in the United Kingdom in the period from the Education Act in 1944 to the end of the 20th century, and to identify the effects on women’s education. The education system in the United Kingdom of that time and of modern time are explained and taken as the basis for understanding the events happening in education in the second half of the 20th century. The 1944 Education Act is taken as a starting point for this thesis as it replaced all previous education laws. Even though its goals were benevolent, it led to even greater discrimination of women. Through all phases of education, many scientists found evidence of gender inequality, male dominance, and harassment of girls. The influence of family was strong in choosing schools and jobs, but those decisions were considered less important for girls than for boys, since the emphasis was put on women raising children and taking care of the family, and not being career women. Despite all that, women’s educational achievement and success only grew form the middle of the 20th century. The 20th century ended with female dominance at almost all levels of education. However, their success and advance still showed evidence of traditional bias and gender inequality. That begs the question: How long will it take for people to free themselves of gender stereotyping in education and reach equal opportunities and treatment of everyone, not only in the United Kingdom but in the world?