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. 2020 Sep:24:1-4.
doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.036.

Women Physicians and the Suffrage Movement

Eliza Lo Chin  1 , Morgan S Levy  2 , Alyssa D Brown  3 , Mollie C Marr  4 , Prachi M Keni  5 , Naveena Daram  6 , Courtney A Chau  7 , Naseem Rangwala  8 , Katarina Watson  9
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Women Physicians and the Suffrage Movement

Eliza Lo Chin et al. Perm J. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

Women physicians have a long history of advocacy, dating to the 19th century women's suffrage movement. As history recounts the work of the suffragists, many women physicians bear mention. Some were leaders on the national scene, and others led suffrage efforts in their own state. In this article, we provide a snapshot of 7 prominent suffragists who were also physicians: Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Marie Equi, Mattie E. Coleman, Cora Smith Eaton, and Caroline E. Spencer. In sharing their stories, we hope to better understand some of the challenges and struggles of the suffrage movement and how their advocacy paved the way not only for women's voting rights but also the role of women physicians as advocates for change.

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