Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake #Pride2018
Sophia Jex-Blake was an English doctor and educator who fought tirelessly for a woman’s right to a university education. She had a romantic partnership with a fellow female doctor, Dr. Margaret Georgina Todd.
Via Wikipedia.
Sophia Jex-Blake was determined to seek medical training in the UK and due to Scotland’s already enlightened attitudes towards education, felt that if any university would allow women to study it would be a Scottish one.
She applied to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in March 1869 and although the Medical Faculty and the Senatus Academus voted in favour of allowing her to study medicine, the University Court rejected her application on the grounds that the University could not make the necessary arrangements ‘in the interest of one lady’.
from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/2kQaTFz
via IFTTT