Editing Exeter College, Oxford (section)

=== Women at Exeter ===
For over six centuries after its founding, women were not permitted to study at Exeter, but in 1979 it joined many other men's colleges in admitting its first female students.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Exeter College History |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/about/history/ |access-date=11 April 2023 |website=Exeter College, Oxford}}</ref> Today it admits men and women in roughly equal numbers.<ref name=":0" /> In 1993, Exeter College became the first of the formerly all-male colleges to elect a woman, [[Marilyn Butler]], as its [[Rector (academia)|rector]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-01 |title=Who's Who, Butler, Prof. Marilyn Speers, (Lady Butler) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-9677 |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Who's Who}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1995-09-15 |title=The sociable revolutionary |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/the-sociable-revolutionary/95301.article |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> When Butler's tenure expired in October 2004, the college elected another woman—[[Frances Cairncross]], former senior editor of ''[[The Economist]]''—as rector.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who's Who, Cairncross, Dame Frances (Anne), (Dame Frances McRae) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-9857|access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Who's Who}}</ref>

In 2014, the author [[J. K. Rowling]] was elected an honorary fellow of the college for the "extraordinary contribution she has made to the field of literature, and in particular to children's reading and literacy".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-05-12 |title=J K Rowling elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Exeter College |url=https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/j-k-rowling-elected-to-an-honorary-fellowship-of-exeter-college/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Exeter College |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brewster |first=Ellen |date=2014-05-15 |title=Honorary fellowship for J.K. Rowling |url=https://www.cherwell.org/2014/05/15/honorary-fellowship-for-jk-rowling/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Cherwell |language=en-GB}}</ref>