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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: Medical Pioneers
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: Fast Facts
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National Women’s History Month dates back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions.
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Women currently hold 17% of Congressional and Senate seats and 18% of gubernatorial positions in the U.S.
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Over 60 percent of college degrees awarded in the U.S. every year are earned by women.
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Marie Curie is the only person who has ever received two Nobel Prizes in two different science categories.
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In almost every country in the world, the life expectancy for women is higher than men.
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Women weren’t legally guaranteed equal educational opportunities until 1972. Today, more women earn college degrees than men.
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Elizabeth
Blackwell, md
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be granted an MD degree. In 1857, she co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children to serve the poor.
rEBECCA LEE
cRUMPLER, MD
The first African American woman in the United States to earn an MD degree, Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduated from New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts and cared for formerly enslaved people.
Virginia
Apgar, md
She graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1933 and became the first director of Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital’s new division of anesthesia in 1938. She created the Apgar score in 1953, the first tool to assess a neonate’s health risks and need for life-saving observation.