Aletta Jacobs (February 9, 1854 – August 10, 1929) was a pioneering physician and settler, and one of the most influential people of the twentieth century. She was one of the women who left a great impact. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1878, and obtained her doctorate only one year later. Alita thus becomes the first woman to attend a Dutch university, the first Dutch woman to obtain a medical degree in the country and the first woman to obtain a doctorate in medicine.
She fought hard for women's suffrage, establishing what is considered the world's first birth control clinic, and campaigning for the prevention of prostitution and for more favorable working conditions for women. She was a prominent leader in both Dutch and international suffrage organizations, and in the women's peace movement during the World War
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Jacobs was an extraordinary person, who challenged many of the conventions of her time and refused to live the life of a conventional woman. Girls' education was separate. Except at the elementary level, Jacobs strongly advocated co-educational and standardized education
For men and women, it vigorously sought equality in education.
Much of what we know about Aletta Jacobs, her life and her work depends on what she chooses to tell us in her memoirs. The Memories presents these experiences in her own words and helps us understand the strengths and weaknesses of the nineteenth-century feminist movement, and some of the foundations on which the twentieth-century feminist movement was built.
Aleta Jacobs' memoir documents what one courageous woman can achieve through her life's worth of selfless work, on behalf of all other women.
