The Other Feminist
By Janet Farrar Worthington
Mary Garrett may have won most of the credit, but gutsy M. Carey Thomas was the driving force to ensure that women would attend the School of Medicine.

oney talks, and Mary Elizabeth Garrett was loaded. Hers was the bankroll that, a century ago, allowed a handful of women to strong-arm the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees into accepting women medical students on an equal footing with men. But it was Garrett’s close friend, M. Carey Thomas, who drove the revolution to make the School of Medicine coeducational
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