Description
In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was once growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women might be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Surely no women were doctors.
But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women were not smart enough to be doctors, or that they were too weak for such hard work. And she would not take no for an answer. Even supposing she faced much opposition, she worked hard and in any case―when she graduated from medical school and went on to have a brilliant career―proved her detractors fallacious. This inspiring story of the first female doctor shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all of the female doctors to come.
Who Says Women Cannot Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone is an NPR Perfect Book of 2013