Ode to Aletta Jacobs | You just managed to do it.

Dear Aletta, I heard that your father and brother were family doctors and you wanted to

wanted to be one. But it wasn't as easy as you had hoped. Women were not allowed

not allowed to study. So you sent a letter to Prime Minister to say why they were

allowed. And you just succeeded and you went to study. And you became in 1879 the

first woman general practitioner in the Netherlands. And you continued to fight for women's

rights. You just made sure that women were allowed to vote in 1919. So

thank you very much Aletta and it is a pity that you can no longer experience what

women can and do now. Women are just very important now. Yet it is

still not completely fair, because women earn with the same job as

men often earn less.

Greetings Morris