Ida Henrietta Hyde M.D., PhD, fought for her right to an education and career in science her whole life. At the age of 14 she was the main provider for her family, including paying for her brother’s university tuition fees. Despite this burden and in the face of her parent’s objections she continued her own… Read More A quest for knowledge
Present: Crystal, Gillian, Sara, Olof, Carla, Lara 1, Events. Next up is a scout camp for leaders (Sep 15th) where we will have a stand with activities in the Activity Zone. The idea is to engage with about 300 scout leaders in attendance and show them easy activities they can take back and do with their… Read More Meet-up August 27/8/2018
Dr Alida Avery was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Colorado where she was later made the Superintendent of Hygiene. Avery studied medicine at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the New England Female Medical College but found it difficult to establish herself in the field after graduation. Attempting to open… Read More Colorado’s Medicine Women
138 years ago in 1880 a woman called Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs became the first Dutch woman to obtain a doctorate. Just one year earlier she had become the first woman to attend and graduate from a Dutch university and the first to hold a medical degree. Needless to say, her journey to these successes was not easy.… Read More Science and suffrage
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