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This incredible photograph from 1885 AD, of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria, who each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.
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Mallika Rao writes in HuffPost, "If timing doesn't seem quite right, that's understandable. In 1885 AD, women in U.S. still couldn't vote, nor were they encouraged to learn very much. Popular wisdom decreed that studying was a threat to motherhood." Given this, how did three women from around the world end up studying there to become doctors? According to Christopher Woolf of PRI's The World, goes to Quakers who "believed in women’s rights enough to set up WMCP way back in 1850 in Germantown.”
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