First Women to Attend Pitt: Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein

Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein were the first women to attend the University of Pittsburgh, back when it was known as Western University of Pennsylvania. Though their male classmates regarded them as “specimens,” they soon proved to be much more, studying mathematics and graduating first in their class with identical GPAs. Three years later, in 1901, they made history again when they became the first women to earn graduate degrees from Pitt.