Locke wanted to be a writer, rather than a teacher or nurse, the conventional careers for literate women of her generation.

In 1949 voting was extended to literate women over 21.

I began to think that every literate American woman who got a divorce and/or committed adultery immediately went out and bought a word processor.

A literate woman, she was a fashion designer, running her own small business.

A literate woman was itself a rare phenomenon and surprisingly her father decided to break from protocol and personally tutor his daughter.

In 2000, Iraq had the lowest regional adult literacy levels, with the percentage of literate women at less than 25 percent.

She is of interest to scholars as a literate early modern woman with opinions on a variety of subjects.

The energy of literate women then was more focused on establishing basic rights, like suffrage.

Any literate woman would stuff this card down your throat, and quite rightly too.

"A period biography of a literate woman," he explains, "is the least desirable box on the board game."