“The restrictions [Lord Cromer] placed on government schools and his raising of school fees held back girls’ education as well as boys’. He also discouraged the training of women doctors. Under the British, the School for Hakimas, which had given women as many years of medical training as the men received in the School of Medicine, was restricted to midwifery.” EducationMedicineWomen EmpowermentColonialismWomen S RightsBritish Colonialism Book:Women and Gender in Islam Source: Women and Gender in Islam