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<\/figure>Wallace\u2019s articles for \u201cWomen in Pharmacy\u201d often consist of interviews with successful women pharmacists, many of whom ran their own storefronts. One example is published in the November, 1916 issue of The Pharmaceutical Era<\/em> and interviews a pharmacist named Daisy Frick. Frick encourages women to study pharmacy, stating \u201c[o]f all professions, it seems to me that Pharmacy is the one to which woman is best adapted\u201d. Frick then goes on to state the benefits of running her own pharmacy: \u201cThe privilege of being your own boss, of having your own purse, of using your own time […] are all very pleasing and tend to make for contentment and happiness\u201d. Indeed, pharmacy was a way for many women to assert their autonomy and provide for themselves, making it an enticing alternative to domestic work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In many cases, pharmacy and politics intersected. One article titled \u201cWomen Pharmacists and the Franchise\u201d, published shortly after women obtained the right to vote, sheds light on Wallace\u2019s political views. In the beginning of the article, Wallace is celebratory of the victory for the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement and notes that women pharmacists could be consolidated into a unified voting bloc opposed to \u201coppressive laws which at the present time are a handicap to pharmacists and through them to women and children in the home\u201d. Ultimately, Wallace stresses unity between men and women. \u201cWe will eliminate political hard feelings and differences\u201d, states Wallace, arguing that women are less partisan than men and therefore more willing to seek compromise. In the final paragraph, Wallace calls on newly enfranchised women to use their political power to push for laws furthering public health, which Wallace believed to be a central responsibility of the pharmacist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This\u00a0Dose of History\u00a0<\/strong>was brought to you by AIHP Intern, Leo Ryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bibliography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gallagher, Teresa Catherine. \u201cFrom Family Helpmeet to Independent Professional: Women in American Pharmacy, 1870-1940.\u201d Pharmacy in History<\/em> 31, no. 2 (1989): 60\u201377. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41112484.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Higby, Gregory J. \u201cEmma Gary Wallace and Her Vision of American Pharmacy.\u201d Pharmacy in History 40, no. 2\/3 (1998): 67\u201376. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41111876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wallace, Emma Gary. \u201cWomen Pharmacists and the Franchise.\u201d Pharmaceutical Era, October, 1920: 315. Obtained through the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wallace, Emma Gary. \u201cAdvantages for Women in Pharmacy – As Seen by Miss Daisy Frick\u201d. Pharmaceutical Era, November, 1916: 435. Obtained through the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy\u2019s Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The early twentieth century saw a considerable increase in the amount of women working in medical fields. This was the product of a number of trends, including the Women\u2019s Suffrage Movement, the professionalization of American medicine, and the gradual supplantation of apprenticeship in favor of academic training. Pharmacy in particular was comparatively accessible for many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,14,23,34],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dose-of-history","tag-pharmacy","tag-pharmacy-history","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"\n
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