Elizabeth Blackwell

            I'm going to talk about some women who were among the few that stepped up and sort of paved the way for some of the other women to make something of themselves. The first woman that I want to talk about is Elizabeth Blackwell. Blackwell was born in Britain in 1821 and her family emigrated to the United States in 1832. In 1849 she became the first woman to have a medical degree. Then in 1857, she and her colleagues founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. She was a very influential figure in the medical world at this time



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