Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Born April 4, 1802, Hampden, District of Maine, Mass. [now in Maine], U.S. Died July 17, 1887, Trenton, N.J. American educator Social reformer Humanitarian whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread reforms in the United States and abroad. (Dorothea Lynde Dix. 2014) Dorothea left home at age 12, she went to Boston to study with her grandmother. At 14 years of age she was teaching at a girls school in Worcester, MA.
Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and would overcome racial and gender barriers to medical education by training in all-female institutions run by women who had been part of the first generation of female physicians graduating mid-century. Cole was the 2nd out of five children. Cole attended the Institute for Colored Youth, graduating in 1863. She then went on to graduate from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867, under the supervision of Ann Preston. Her graduate medical thesis was titled The Eye and Its Appendages.Afterwards Cole interned at Elizabeth Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.
Blackwell opened her own dispensary in a single rented room, seeing patients three afternoons a week. The dispensary was formed into a corporation in 1854 and moved to a small house she bought on 15th Street. Her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell who was the second woman that earned M.D. degree, joined her in 1856 and, together with another friend opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857. By establishing this Infirmary, she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing women who were rejected from internships elsewhere but determined to expand their skills as physicians.
It was the first school devoted entirely to the medical education of women and to upgrading that education, unlike school in her time, where it only took 3 years of private study with a practicing physician and 32 weeks of pass/fail college study before you obtained a medical degree. It later became one of the first medical schools in America to mandate four years of study. In additional to her private practice and efforts for women's rights, Blackwell took up the fight against venereal disease, or more specifically, the fight to repeal the Contagious Disease
The first career we will be looking at is Midwifery. If you have no previous experience working in healthcare, you will have to do a three or four year degree course that leads to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The training covers biological sciences, applied sociology, psychology and professional practice. Study hours tend to be split equally between theory at a university and hands-on clinical practice. During the practical part of the course you will have direct contact with women and their families in hospitals, community clinics and in their homes.
Kenneth and Mamie received their bachelor and masters from Howard University. Mamie did her master thesis on, “The Development of Consciousness of Self in Negro Pre-School Children, She did this because of her work with the all black nursery school and her future husband wrote the thesis with her and added the research on self-identification in Black children and she had two children during this time, Katie in 1940 and Hilton in 1943, all the she completing her degree (Butler, 2009). Kenneth went to Columbia University in 1937 and Mamie in 1938 graduated magna cu laude. Mamie worked at a law office for a while. That is where she saw firsthand how segregation had a damaging effect.
“Though each of [Tacie’s] four children took classes at the college, it was her eldest daughter Alice who stayed for four years graduating with a degree in Biology” (“Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist,” par. 9). Paul graduated with three degrees, with her Master’s in Sociology. From a young age Alice was a commencement speaker. At the age of 22, she moved to England, and began her journey towards Women’s Suffrage Movement.
I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project. After graduating high school early, Bath received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from New York's Hunter College in 1964. She relocated to Washington, D.C. to attend Howard University College of Medicine, from which she received her doctoral degree in 1968. During her time at Howard, she was president of the Student National Medical Association and
It was originally built as a women's residence hall and remained so until 1980 when it became co-ed. Named after Dr. Elizabeth Peet who practically grew up in the Deaf Community. Her mother was deaf and her father was an educator of the Deaf. Her grandfather and father were successive principals of the New York School for the Deaf. After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891.
Mae Jemison 1 Mae Carol Jemison  Mae Carol Jemison Mary Taylor Jones College of Jacksonville Mae Jemison 2 Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison, a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher of English and Math. [1] When Jemison was 3 years old, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois to take advantage of better educational opportunities. By the time she entered kindergarten in 1961 she knew how to read, and she had already decided to be a scientist. “ As a child growing up, Jemison learned