"Despite what that teacher said, my aunt, Susan Bailey, not only became a doctor, but she was also one of the first female board-certified cardiovascular surgeons in the US. My mom, Mary Cranston, became a lawyer. When she made partner at her firm, the partnership celebration dinners were still held at a social club that didn't allow women."
A family story describes how a teacher told girls that women could not be doctors, but a grandmother refused to accept that limit. She found a female pediatrician in the Bay Area and brought her daughters to see her, showing what was possible. The grandmother later earned a master’s degree in economics in the 1940s, worked for the Federal Reserve, and encouraged her daughters to aim high. Her daughters then built major careers: one became a doctor and a pioneering female board-certified cardiovascular surgeon, and another became a lawyer and reached partnership at a firm that still excluded women from social clubs.
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