changes in the role of women Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
1859 - Publishes notes on nursing, which legitimises the role of women in the medical industry and the occupation of being a nurse in the medical field
- before this, it was seen more unprofessional, and nightingale showed that the people all have formal training and are qualified
st thomas’ hospital, king’s college hospital
1860 and 1861 - nightingale opens two school to promote proper nursing training, again continues to legitimise the role of nurses
- also gives women the opportunity to have proper training in the nursing fields
Elizabeth Garett
1873 - became the first registered practitioner in the UK (apart of the British Medical Association BMA)
- attended medical lectures provided for male doctors in middlesex hospital
1865 - rejected from the society of apothecaries, but her father threatened to sue them
St Mary’s Dispensary
1866 - treatment centre for women opened by elizabeth garrett, providing medical treatment for women
- opening helped by her father’s funding
New Hospital for Women
1872 - founded by Garett, a hospital staffed entirely for women
Sophia Jex-Black
1869 - edinburgh university allowed women to study medicine, but there was a lot of harassment and opposition from male students
1870 november - they were not allowed into the surgeons hall, not allowed to do practical work
1874 - university forces female students to leave after protests from male students
–> had to leave the UK to gain a medical degree
Edith Pechey
1869 - edinburgh university allowed women to study medicine, harassment and opposition from male students
1870 - not allowed to do practical work
Pechey won a prize in chemistry (came 1st), but it was given to male student who came second, in fear that the men would protest/be mad
1874 - university forces the female students to leave
–> Pechey had to leave the UK to gain a medical degree
Marie Curie
1902 - isolates radium, leading to a radiotherapy treatment, on how radiation could reduce and destroy tumours in the body - used to treat cancer
- her works hows the knowledge that women were able to develop, not only men that were smart
- winning of the nobel prize gave her and women more respect in the scientific fields
world war 1
1914-18 - women were not really able to stay on the front lines as men thought they “couldn’t handle it”
- at the end of the war women had to be sent because there were not enough men
1917 - women’s army auxiliary corpse, including ambulance drivers and other duties
Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) - volunteers who cleaned, changed bedlinen etc.
—> worked with licensed nurses, where they felt disrespected due to their qualifications not being respected
impacts of ww1
jobs were mostly revoked from women and returned back to men
–> no long lasting impact
- most medical school stopped accepting female students again, despite an increase during hte war
- very difficult for female doctors to get jobs in general
world war 2
1938-45 - women meant to be given roles in healthcare, but instead only assigned to administrative roles and kept away from front lines
–> still assumed notion that women could not handle it
- government was reluctant to accept female practitioners, only 4 in the beginning of the war
(before ww1 - most women doctors only treating children and other women)
- were accepted to auxiliary service or blood transfusion service, rather than the RAMC (lower ranks)
impact of ww2 *
women made lots of sacrafices, but they were not widely recognised in their doings and what they did for the war
