International Woman's Day
"The story of women's struggle for equality"
International Woman's Day
Woman of Science
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Woman of Medicine
Florence Nightgale
Nightingale's parents eventually relented and in 1851, she went to Kaiserwerth in Germany for three months nursing training. The Crimean War began and reports in the newspapers were describing the desperate lack of proper medical facilities for wounded British soldiers at the front. In 1854 she led an expedition of 38 women to take over the management of the hospital.
In 1860, she established the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Once the nurses were trained, they were sent to hospitals all over Britain, where they introduced the ideas they had learned, and established nursing training on the Nightingale model.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born December 25, 1821. She began teaching school at a time when most teachers were men and she was among the first women to gain employment in the federal government. At age 60, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for 23 years. Her understanding of the needs of people in distress and the ways in which she could provide help to them guided her throughout her life.
Architechture
Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was born January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957. She was an American architect in California.She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle.
Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman architect licensed in California. She designed many buildings for institutions serving women and girls including YWCA buildings and buildings for Mills College.
Morgan was the architect for St. John's Prebyterian Church and many of the buildings at Asilomar Conference Center. Julia Morgan is the first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal.