You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning, and you need not try. — Ellen (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Ellen was a lot of firsts: the first American woman to graduate with a degree in chemistry (from Vassar in 1870); the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and, in 1873, the first woman to teach there, too.
A Woman to Know: Ellen Swallow Richards
A Woman to Know: Ellen Swallow Richards
A Woman to Know: Ellen Swallow Richards
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning, and you need not try. — Ellen (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Ellen was a lot of firsts: the first American woman to graduate with a degree in chemistry (from Vassar in 1870); the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and, in 1873, the first woman to teach there, too.