Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Out of Woman’s Sphere. [ARTICLE]

Out of Woman’s Sphere.

Woman’s advent in the learned professions is a comparatively modern development in the United States. Sixty years ago no woman in this country, so far as known, had ever been regularly accredited as an authorized practitioner in law, medicine or theology. Indeed, it seemed 3 then rar more likely that women would be allowed to preach than vote. When Antoinette L. Brown imparted to her classmate, Lucy Stone, at Oberlin, her Intention to become an ordained minister, Lucy, who already aspired to become a voter, exclaimed, "You can never do it!" Yet Antoinette was ordained and ministered to an orthodox congregation some fifty years ago, while Lucy, after half a century of heroic effort, died a disfranchised citizen.' Of the three learned professions, medicine has proved the most generally available for women. There are now many thousand women physicians of every school practicing medicine successfully In America.