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Leta Stetter Hollingworth was the first champion of the cause of gifted girls and women. She was also one of the founders of gifted education, if not the founder, since she instituted the first course in the nature and needs of the gifted, wrote the first major textbook in the field, conducted over 30 original studies of gifted children, developed one of the first and most celebrated experimental education programs, designed curricula and counseling techniques still in use today, and contributed the first extensive study of children above 180 IQ. In addition, she single-handedly launched a battle to refute the pervasive beliefs of her time that females were innately inferior in intelligence to males. Through her own scholarship, ingenuity, courage and tenacity, Hollingworth won the battle and provided the foundation upon which we can build to understand and nurture giftedness in females.

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It All Began with Leta Hollingworth: The Story of Giftedness in Women

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