rich 1.0 Adrian Wooldridge (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/adrian-wooldridge/) profiles Philippa Fawcett (https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/philippa-fawcett-wrangler-extraordinaire/) , the first female Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University and a trailblazer for women's achievement in a nascent meritocratic society. Read by Sebastian Brown. Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit (https://axsonjohnsonfoundation.org/) . Image: 1890 engraving of Philippa Fawcett, the first female Senior Wrangler. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The EI Podcast https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938-the-ei-podcast Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/42168342/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8594685/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>