Background
Her father was a country doctor from which she developed an interest to follow the field of medicine.
(Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent C...)
Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent Customer Service.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A0CCQVS/?tag=2022091-20
( The first Dutch woman to earn a medical degree, Aletta ...)
The first Dutch woman to earn a medical degree, Aletta H. Jacobs pioneered health care reforms and access to birth control for prostitutes and saleswomen. A leader in the international women's suffrage and peace movements, she joined Carrie Chapman Catt on a year-long round-the-world lecture tour. Jacobs recounts her remarkable experiences in a voice that is often witty, sometimes angry, and always indomitable.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/155861138X/?tag=2022091-20
Her father was a country doctor from which she developed an interest to follow the field of medicine.
University of Groningen.
Born on February 9, 1854 to Abraham Jacobs and Anna de Jongh, she had eleven siblings and was the eight youngest out of them. As a child, she would go on many doctor visits with her dad and seeing all the help he brought to his patients made her pursue becoming a physician. Even though she dreamed of one day being a doctor like her father, education for women in the Netherlands at the time was a big struggle.
Jacobs was able to finish primary school in 1867, but at the time no girl in Sappemeer was allowed to enter high school.
That did not stop Jacobs from learning though and in 1870 she passed the exam for assistant chemistry This allowed her to gain recognition and eventually was given permission on April 28, 1871 to attend the University of Groningen by minister of education J.R. Thorbecke.
On March 8, 1879 Jacobs graduated from the university as the first female physician in the Netherlands. After graduating, Jacobs moved to London where she started meeting many feminists as well as birth control and suffrage activists.
In London she was greatly influenced by new ideas, one being the need for women to have contraceptives available to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
Afterwards, she moved to Amsterdam where she set her own practice clinic for the lower class who could not afford other physicians. Many women also began asking her for some form of conraception. She began thinking of ways to help with this problem and helped improve and perfect the diaphragm, also known as the Mensinga Pessary, which is why most people only accr the invention to West.P.J. Mensinga.
Although Mensinga made the original diaphragm, Jacobs reached out to him and was able to make great contributions and changes to the design of the device to perfect lieutenant
After going to the International Council of Women"s meeting in London on 1899, Jacobs decided to leave her medical practices and devote herself toward women"s suffrage. After the beginning of the First World War, Jacobs held an International Congress of Women in the Hague.
Throughout the war she continued to fight hard for women"s suffrage and even up to her death still talked at different conferences. She died in Baarn, Netherlands on August 10, 1929.
(The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of mo...)
( The first Dutch woman to earn a medical degree, Aletta ...)
(Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent C...)