This article identifies the factors that influence women's access to education in a context dominated by customs and practices that work against them, considering the case of North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following a qualitative approach based on interviews, a discriminant analysis and a multinomial logistic regression were carried out to analyse the variables that discriminate against and/or explain women's access to education. The results show that the level of education of the parents, the type of union between the parents, the income of the parents, and the head of the family's religious affiliation are all factors that significantly explain the level of education attained by women.