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Eh, the average medieval or renaissance noble would strike a modern person as being an uncultured lout. I doubt that most of the aristocracy were particularly well educated, man or woman.
In fact, I'd say the average noble woman was as likely to be as educated as any man. Nobles did not pursue education for utilitarian purposes, but for status. After all, there's no reason that a person needs to know Greek or Latin literature, other then the hypothetical cultivation of morals, and even then...
The people who educated themselves for utilitarian purposes would have been merchants, and them being savvy with money they would have prioritised educating sons into their trade over daughters. Women did occasionally do well in the sphere of business, but they usually learned it from their husbands, not necessarily their fathers.
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