Editing History of medicine (section)

=== Women ===
It was very difficult for women to become doctors in any field before the 1970s. [[Elizabeth Blackwell (doctor)|Elizabeth Blackwell]] became the first woman to formally study and practice medicine in the United States. She was a leader in women's medical education. While Blackwell viewed medicine as a means for social and moral reform, her student [[Mary Putnam Jacobi]] (1842–1906) focused on curing disease. At a deeper level of disagreement, Blackwell felt that women would succeed in medicine because of their humane female values, but Jacobi believed that women should participate as the equals of men in all medical specialties using identical methods, values and insights.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Markell Morantz R |year=1982 |title=Feminism, Professionalism and Germs: The Thought of Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell |journal=American Quarterly |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=461–78 |doi=10.2307/2712640 |jstor=2712640}}</ref> Although the majority of medical doctors in the [[Soviet Union]] were women, they were paid less than the male dominated factory workers.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics |vauthors=Eisler R |year=2007 |page=78}}</ref>