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List of first female pharmacists by country
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This is a list of the first qualified female pharmacists to practice in each country, where that is known.
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Please note: the list should foremost contain the first female pharmacist with a formal qualification from each country. Historically, it was normal for widows of apothecaries and pharmacist to inherit their late husband's profession without being formally qualified. These cases – and other of note – can be noted in the margin, but should not be listed first.
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Africa
- Namibia: There might be more female graduates, as the names listed were the only women named in the cited article.
- Nigeria: Green is considered to have been the first female pharmacist in West Africa. Ekanem Bassey Ikpeme was considered the first native female pharmacist in Nigeria.[18]
- Tunisia: Dorra Bouzid is considered the first female pharmacist in Tunisia after independence. She started her practice sometime during the 1960s.[19]
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Americas
- Canada: Preevoot was considered the first Canadian woman to pass the pharmacy exam by law.
- Chile: Glafira Vargas was the first female to graduate with a pharmacy degree in 1887, though Hinojosa appears to be the first female to work as a pharmacist upon graduation.[43][44]
- Curaçao: van heb Elizabeths-Gasthu was said to have been the first woman to have passed the exam for an assistant pharmacist in the colony.
- Guatemala: Altuve is considered the first Central American woman to have obtained a university degree.
- United States: Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf was the first not formally qualified pharmacist to practice in 1727.[45] Hayhust was the first woman to receive a pharmacy degree in the United States in 1883. Ella P. Stewart was one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States.[46][47]
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Asia
- Indonesia: Jacobs is considered the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies).
Europe
- Belgium: Certain sources cite Louise Popelin (sister of Belgium's first female lawyer Marie Popelin) or Ida Huys as Belgium's first female pharmacist. They both completed their exams in 1887.[110][82]
- Czech Republic and Slovakia: Other sources cited Elza Fantová as the first Bohemia woman to earn a pharmaceutical degree in 1908.[111] Krontilová-Librova started her pharmacy practice in 1904 and became the first female pharmacy student at the University of Prague in 1907 (graduating in 1909).
- Finland: The first female pharmacist to qualify without dispensation in Finland was Helene Aejneleus in 1911. Brunberg was the first women to be qualified by dispensation.
- Germany: Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony was a non-professional female pharmacist in Germany.[112] Helena Magenbuch and Maria Andreae were professional pharmacists in the 16th-century.
- Ireland: Wilson was the first female pharmacist to qualify in the south of Ireland.
- Italy: Elisa Gagnatelli and Edvige Moroni were the first women to pass the pharmacy exam in 1897.[82]
- Netherlands: In the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, Charlotte Jacobs became the first female pharmacist with a degree in 1879.[51]
- Norway: Christine Dahl passed her assistant pharmacy exam in 1889, but Eide was considered the first female pharmacist.[82]
- Poland: Although Lesniewska was considered the first female pharmacist, Filipina and Konstancja Studzinska (sisters) were the first women to pass the pharmacy examination in 1824.[82]
- Russia: Olga Evgenevna Gabrilovich was the first female pharmacist to earn a degree in 1906.[113]
- Sweden: Leth was the first female pharmacist to have fulfilled a formal qualification. Maria Dauerer was the first female pharmacist to have obtained a license.[114] The first woman to have obtained a degree in pharmacology was Agnes Arvidsson (1903).[115]
- Ukraine: Makarova, a Kiev University graduate, was the first woman to pass the examination for the title of pharmaceutical assistant.[108]
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