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In fairmess to the Ottomans, educating girls was not something that was very pronounced in the West. Many considered this as a waste of time and money. But even in the 18th century, especially in Protestant Europe and in America you begin to see girls in the developing public primary schools. The impetus for this was the Protestant belief that people should study the Bible which of course required literacy. And before public education this meant thst mothers had to be literte to teach the children. It also meant that Protestrants supported public education and at least primary education for the girls. This dynamic was totally absent in the Muslim world, even in the only powerful Muslim state--the Ottoman Empire. So including girls in the OPEL was quite a shock to many conservative Ottomans. Educating girls is still controversial in many Muslim countries, even inspiring Islanic findamentalists attacking school girls like Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan (2012). As far as we know relatively few girl's schools were actually establishd. We do not yet have details. But some girls' schools were opened, including a few in Palestine. Large bumbers of Palestinian girls were not educated, however, until after World War I during the British mandate. [Greenberg] Thanks to the British Mandate Schools, Palestinian girls by the end of the Mandate were the best educated in the Muslim world, but very little of this was due to Ottoman education.
Greenberg, Ela. "Educating Muslim girls in Mandatory Jersualem," International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 36 (2004), pp. 1-19.
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