Lora Sahmarani
Mr. Nissen | Mrs. Kwiatkowski
More than a Midwife: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Fight for Gender Equality
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was a positive leader, advocate, and the first woman in the United States to graduate from medical college with a degree. Her exploration in the field of medicine led her to pursue her own career, ultimately allowing other women to be able to explore other opportunities in the future. Blackwell went through immense opposition with sexual prejudice while trying to become a medical practitioner, leaving women to be inspired by her leadership and earning her a spot in medical history. Despite her encounters with immense opposition in the medical field in the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn her medical degree, paving the way for women's rights by exchanging her medical knowledge with other women and encouraging gender equality while exploring the field of medicine.
At this period in time, a female in the medical field, which was considered a man’s job, was deemed unethical and unnecessary.
People across the world believed that women did not have the power or ability to become anything other than mothers or midwives.
For centuries before the 1800s, as well, a woman learning about anatomy, physiology, or even learning at all, was shunned and …show more content…
Her family was a group of abolitionists with multiple goals, including gender equality, so they immediately approved, but warned her of rejection and disappointment. With her mind still on the goal of gender equality, Blackwell brushed them off and began working as a music teacher for the next year to raise money for medical school. She was later quoted in 1846 saying. After raising a sufficient amount of money, Blackwell filled out applications to twenty-nine different medical colleges and even wrote multiple letters to doctors to try and receive recommendations to go along with her
Mr. Nissen | Mrs. Kwiatkowski
More than a Midwife: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Fight for Gender Equality
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was a positive leader, advocate, and the first woman in the United States to graduate from medical college with a degree. Her exploration in the field of medicine led her to pursue her own career, ultimately allowing other women to be able to explore other opportunities in the future. Blackwell went through immense opposition with sexual prejudice while trying to become a medical practitioner, leaving women to be inspired by her leadership and earning her a spot in medical history. Despite her encounters with immense opposition in the medical field in the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn her medical degree, paving the way for women's rights by exchanging her medical knowledge with other women and encouraging gender equality while exploring the field of medicine.
At this period in time, a female in the medical field, which was considered a man’s job, was deemed unethical and unnecessary.
People across the world believed that women did not have the power or ability to become anything other than mothers or midwives.
For centuries before the 1800s, as well, a woman learning about anatomy, physiology, or even learning at all, was shunned and …show more content…
Her family was a group of abolitionists with multiple goals, including gender equality, so they immediately approved, but warned her of rejection and disappointment. With her mind still on the goal of gender equality, Blackwell brushed them off and began working as a music teacher for the next year to raise money for medical school. She was later quoted in 1846 saying. After raising a sufficient amount of money, Blackwell filled out applications to twenty-nine different medical colleges and even wrote multiple letters to doctors to try and receive recommendations to go along with her