Through her determination and struggle for equal rights, Elizabeth Blackwell broke the barrier between men and women in the professional workplace, and gave women across the country the ability to pursue a career in the medical profession.
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America.
(Image: smithsonianmag.com)
Female medical students 200 years after Elizabeth broke barriers
between men and women in the medical field. (Image: ce.mayo.edu)
"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
~Elizabeth Blackwell
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