by Michele Genthon | Aug 18, 2021 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Religion
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the First Woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Her younger sister, Emily Blackwell, was the third. Together the two sisters founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children which later became a medical college...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 30, 2020 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Mary McLeod Bethune, during her lifetime, was called “The First Lady of Negro America” and “The First Lady of the Struggle.” In 1974 she became the First African American Woman to have a statue installed in a public park within the District of Columbia. Mary McLeod...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 24, 2020 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
In early January 2019 Katherine A. Rowe was inaugurated as the First Woman President of the college of William and Mary, three and one-quarter centuries after it was founded. I began to wonder what took so long, especially for a college named after a woman. Then I...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 6, 2017 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Sylvia Trent-Adams is a nurse, and the first non-physician to serve as Surgeon General of the United States (assuming the one veterinarian who held the position is counted as a physician). The position of Surgeon General was created in 1871 under President Grant’s...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 12, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
Sutematsu Yamakawa Oyama was the first Japanese woman to earn a bachelor’s degree. Her remarkable feat occurred in the late 1800’s at Vassar College. Sutematsu was part of a Japanese experiment that is engagingly recounted in Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P....
by Michele Genthon | Sep 18, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
“To be the head of an institution that’s associated with knowledge and reading and scholarship when slaves were forbidden to learn how to read on punishment of losing limbs, that’s kind of something.” [Carla Hayden] In the United States 83% of librarians are women,...
