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The presence of women in medicine, particularly in the practicing fields of surgery and as physicians, has been traced to the earliest of history. Women have historically had lower participation levels in medical fields compared to men with occupancy rates varying by race, socioeconomic status, and geography.
Lacks c. 1945–1951. [A] Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [2] was an African-American woman [5] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces ...
This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
Mamie Odessa Hale was nurse and teacher of midwives in Arkansas. [91] Beatrix McCleary Hamburg in 1948 became the first African American woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine. [92] Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.
The president declares every March Women's History Month. Since 1995, every president has issued a proclamation declaring March Women's History Month, usually with a statement about its importance ...
Bette Nesmith Graham, the founder of the Liquid Paper company, invented one of the first forms of correction fluid in 1956. [42] House solar heating. Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy.
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1] Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United ...
Women's History Month Quotes -. "Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men." — Katherine Johnson, one of the first Black women ...