Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted, although women's practice of medicine, informally, in the role of caregivers, or in the allied health professions, has been widespread. Most countries of the world now guarantee equal access by women to medical education. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was one of the most import women in medicine. She was born 9th of June 1836 and died on 17th of December 1917 she was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school.
Her short term was that she helped set up London school of medicine, founded hospital for women and set up a medical practice in London. She went to France, Paris to gain a medical degree and then was accepted by the Society of Apothecaries, which you had to be accepted to become a Doctor. Compared to another crucial woman in medicine at the time Florence nightingale that is reoffered to as the mother of medicine whose short term impact was during the Crimean war where she helped clean up and improve the conditions of hospitals in the Crimea and because of this the death rate in the hospitals from 42% to 2%. But she often compared to Mary Seacole who is often referred as mother Seacole and she is usually said to have had been pushed aside because she was black and poor but steel thought as doing as much of Florence nightingale as she approached the medical board to join Florence nightingale but she was turned down because she was black. So she decided to fund her own trip to the Crimea and helped almost as many people as Florence nightingale and she even went to the front line to help the waned soldiers and considered by some to be better than Florence nightingale because she was at more of a disadvantage to begin with.
In terms of her long term impact and lasting role of changing the role of women in medicine she worked steadily at the development of the New Hospital for Women, and (from 1874) at the creation of the London School of Medicine for Women. In 9 November 1908, she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England. She died in 1917 and is buried in Aldeburgh. But Florence’s nightingale after the Crimean war she had £45,000 at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund to set up the Nightingale Training School at St.