Why Was Elizabeth Blackwell Important?

Elizabeth Blackwell was  important because she as the first women in America to get her medical degree and become America's first women doctor.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor in the united States. She was born in 1821 Bristol,England.After 28 rejections she was excepted in medical school, moved to Paris, got an eye infection and lost sight in one of her eyes. She didn't have any children but she adopted an orphan from Ireland. The child was 7 years old and her name was Kitty Barry. Elizabeth opened the first women's medical college and died at the age of 89 in 1910.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor in the United States. It sounds like an implausible figment of one's imagination but it was a reality that initially women were not allowed to become doctors in the United States. Whatever meager education that they achieved was only related to housework such as cooking and sewing activities and some cultural activities such as music and dancing.

In that age, it was really difficult for a woman to pursue a career nevertheless Elizabeth Blackwell faced the odds of the society valiantly and showed an obvious interest in subjects like math, science and history. She was British by birth, but at the age of eleven she had moved to New York like many other English colonists. It was after a lot of struggles and being rejected by 29 medical schools that Elizabeth Blackwell finally got admission in a medical school from which she graduated in the year of 1849.