Posts Categorized: Women’s History

Happy International Women’s Day!

News, Women's History, Women's history month

    If you’ve been online at all today, then you probably know that it’s International Women’s Day. While it may well appear to be another run-of-the-mill “National _____ Day” created by clever marketers, the roots of International Women’s Day actually go back to 1909, when the first National Women’s Day observed to honor the… Read More

Dr. Sarah Read Adamson Dolley (1829-1909)

News, Women's History

  Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Advocate for Women’s Rights First Woman to Complete a Medical Internship Operated a medical practice with her husband, Dr. Lester Dolley President of a women’s and children’s dispensary (1886) First president of the New York Women’s Medical Society (1907) Sarah Read Adamson was born on March 11, 1829 in Schuylkill Meeting… Read More