JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 07, 2011

My mother is a retired MD, and the first woman to graduate from her Medical School (1952!). When my sister was in kindergarten (circa 1966) she would tell her little friends that her Mommy was a doctor… and no one would believe her! All the little girls told her, pityingly, “No, Daddies are doctors; Mommies are Nurses!”