Imagine only having male doctors. The awkward moment's young girls must endure and the comfort level of young boys dropping with every visit. When it comes to the medical world, your gender does not divide you from being successful, it is the skills that you learn and perfect that make you great. Elizabeth Blackwell, Mae Jemison, Roberta Bondar, and Jane Elizabeth Hodgson are just a few women who impacted the medical field greatly, and who worked against men to achieve their goals.
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and was also the first woman on the UK Medical Register. Her and her sister, Emily, who was the third woman in the United States to receive a medical degree, contributed greatly to helping soldiers when the American Civil War broke out. Without the Blackwell sisters the Women's Central Relief Association (WCRA) would not have been founded, because the men refused to help the two sisters when it came to their burse education plan, so the WCRA worked against the issue of uncoordinated benevolence, but in the end was absorbed by the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC).
Mae Jemison is an American Physician and NASA astronaut. Not …show more content…
She is the only person ever convicted in the United States of performing an abortion in a hospital. She received her Bachelor's degree from Carleton College and her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota. Hodgson trained at the Jersey City Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic. Her fifty-year-long career focused on providing reproductive health care for women, including abortions. For her amazing contributions to the field of women's health earned her the National Abortion Federation's Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award in 1981, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award in 1995, and the American Medical Women's Association's National Reproductive Health award in
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and was also the first woman on the UK Medical Register. Her and her sister, Emily, who was the third woman in the United States to receive a medical degree, contributed greatly to helping soldiers when the American Civil War broke out. Without the Blackwell sisters the Women's Central Relief Association (WCRA) would not have been founded, because the men refused to help the two sisters when it came to their burse education plan, so the WCRA worked against the issue of uncoordinated benevolence, but in the end was absorbed by the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC).
Mae Jemison is an American Physician and NASA astronaut. Not …show more content…
She is the only person ever convicted in the United States of performing an abortion in a hospital. She received her Bachelor's degree from Carleton College and her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota. Hodgson trained at the Jersey City Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic. Her fifty-year-long career focused on providing reproductive health care for women, including abortions. For her amazing contributions to the field of women's health earned her the National Abortion Federation's Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award in 1981, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award in 1995, and the American Medical Women's Association's National Reproductive Health award in