Nurse-Midwives Begin to Offer Care to Middle-Class Women Changes in women's self-concept during World War II, after the war, and throughout the postwar baby boom preceded nurse-midwifery's ...
In 1940, Estelle returned to St. Louis ... faculty member at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She let everyone know that minority women were just as capable of holding important ...
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...
A demand for nurse-midwifery care emerged in the ... of care to poor and working class women, but by the late 1940s, middle class women demanded more involvement in their childbearing experience ...