Crossing The Barriers Emily Stowe

demanding equality and justice. Through legal and political battles, various women's movements,

marches and protests this great task has been nearly accomplished. In the latter part of the 18th

century, women were generally classified as delicate, unintelligent creatures. If the necessity arose for

a women to be employed they were classified a lower, poorer part of the population. Women had

great struggle in gaining the education to obtain equal opportunities as the male population. Many

fields of employment were strictly off limits for women. One such was Medicine and the practice of.

For a woman to try and bridge the vast social and educational barriers that would arise on the

attempt of applying for Medical school was atrocious. There was although one woman who

conquered these barriers and pioneered the struggle for women's equality as Canada's first female

Emily Stowe is a true Canadian heroine. She received a good education and was trained to

be a teacher, a profession at which she was very successful. Despite her many achievements, which

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became the first women to attend lectures at the Toronto School of Medicine. Emily was a

incredibly intelligent young girl. It was mocking, degrading and pure disregard for

her as a person.

She returned to Toronto upon graduation, to practice medicine in the face of fines, threats of

imprisonment and opposition from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. The University of

Toronto had told her that women would never be accepted and other schools had laughed at her

application.

This may sound like a unrealistic goal but if one woman could influence a whole country the way

Emily Stowe did, I believe one day we could and will have a equal relationship of men and women. Soon afterwards Emily achieved one of her many great

accomplishments by becoming the first woman principal in Canada. Because of this she failed and went back to practicing without a license. In 1853, when she was 22, Emily took a six month course to become a qualified teacher

and graduated in May, 1854. On October

1, 1883 the school opened its door to all women. At the early age of 15 she obtained a position teaching school

children. In this a

parliament of women, using all of the arguments men had used against them, humorously debated

and defeated a motion to permit men the vote. Every time a woman is handed a diploma or is

acknowledged for an award the memory of Emily Stowe will live on.

She applied to the University of Toronto and was immediately refused entry on account of her sex.

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