It drives me crazy that there are career fields that are so-called dominated by gender over another. It should not matter who is doing a job as long as the job gets done and is done well. People are born with a special skill set, so those skills should be honored by encouraging whoever to follow the career path they seem the best fit for in life. Virginia Apgar’s name should sound familiar to most people. She is the woman who deserves many thanks. Virginia Apgar is the reason we have the Apgar score in hospitals today for newborns. Her passion and knowledge should have been enough to make her a surgeon, but a male superior said that was not her place in the medical field. She did not settle for just being a nurse. While nurses are essential and a valuable contribution to hospitals, Virginia wanted to do more and was capable of doing more, and it is not a job only women can do. To make a name for herself in the field, she designed a system of evaluation that could save many newborn lives. This simple scale changed the way babies were cared for in the first moments. This critical time made it imperative that evaluations were made quickly and efficiently. She left a lasting mark on medicine. Virginia could have been angry about being told she could not do what she wanted to do, but she took a different approach. The energy she could have used being angry was transformed to determination and used for good. When Virginia was told she could never be more than a nurse, she persisted. Stay Curious, Kayla ©Inquisitive Perspectives 2018
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