The "Open Way of Opportunity": Colorado Women Physicians and World War I

A War Generation?: The Radcliffe College Community in the Great War Era, 1914–1926

“…19 Six years later, Kimberly Jensen claimed that most of America's 6,000 wartime female physicians sought Medical Reserve Corps officers' commissions on par "with male colleagues" to gain "full citizenship" and "professional equality." 20 Susan Zeiger subsequently noted that AEF-associated American women considered "their labor an entrée to equal citizenship." 21 A decade later, Jensen held that American physicians like Caroline Purnell patriotically treated AEF servicemen to attain "complete [legal] citizenship"-particularly suffrage-and equal military commissions and "access to educational, professional, and organizational opportunit [ies]."…”