Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu

Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu (February 10, 1857 – November 16, 1919) was the first woman to be a medical doctor in Romania.

[1] As an active feminist supporter, she founded the Maternal Society in 1897, and in 1899 organised the first crèche in Romania.

Her thesis was titled Hydrorrhee to valeur et dans le cancer du corps semiologique del uters.

[4][1] She made a request to Brâncovenesc Hospital, asking to work on a post-secondary medical department "Diseases of Women", but was turned down without explanation, and instead given a post as professor of hygiene.

[1] Cuțarida-Crătunescu founded a maternal society in 1897 to help poor children, and was invited to congresses in Brussels (1907) and Copenhagen (1910), where she presented the Romanian medical actions initiated against infant mortality and a study on nurseries in Romania.