Question: How many woman are pharmacists?

Women in pharmacy

Women have served widely as pharmacists. However, as with women in many jobs, women in pharmacy were often restricted. For example, only in 1964 was the American Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L., 78Stat., enacted July2, 1964) enacted, which outlawed refusing to hire women because of their sex (including though not limited to in the profession of pharmacist.)[1][2] Even today, not all countries ensure equal employment opportunities for women.[3]
Women in medieval pharmacy
Apothecary is one term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgeons, and patients; the modern pharmacist has taken over this role. Throughout medieval times, apothecaries were not trained in universities as physicians were. More often, they were trained through guilds, and apprenticeship. Therefore, their business was typically family-run, and wives or other women of the family also worked alongside their husbands in the shops, learning the trade themselves. Women were still not allowed to train and be educated in universities so this allowed them a chance to be trained in medical knowledge and healing. Previously, women had some influence in other women's healthcare, such as serving as midwives and other feminine care in a setting that was not considered appropriate for males. Though physicians gave medical advice, they did not make medicine, so they typically sent their patients to particular independent apothecaries, who did also provide some medical advice in particular remedies and healing.
Women in modern pharmacy
The National Association of Women Pharmacists was founded in London on 15 June 1905, following discussions between Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan and Isabella Skinner Clarke, both of whom had joined the Register of Chemists and Druggists and Pharmaceutical Chemists after passing the requisite examinations but had been prevented from joining the Register of Chemists and Druggists and Pharmaceutical Chemists. Early meetings were held at Clarke's home. Membership was restricted to those who had passed the major or minor examination and 50 women joined immediately. By 1912 Buchanan claimed that practically all women practicing pharmacy were members.[4]
Pioneering women in pharmacy
Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532-1585), now considered to have been the first female pharmacist in Germany.[5]
Caterina Vitale (1566-1619), the first female pharmacist and chemist in Malta, and the first female pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller.[6]
Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf (1681 – 1762)[7]) was the first female apothecary in the Thirteen Colonies.[8] She is considered to be the first female pharmacist in the United States.[8]
Susan Hayhurst (1820-1909), the first woman to receive a pharmacy degree in the United States, which occurred in 1883.[9][10][11]
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863, which made her the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy.[12][13]
Cora Dow (1868–1915), a pharmacist in Cincinnati, Ohio, the leading female pharmacist of her time, with eleven stores under her name when she died.[14][15][16]
Fanny Deacon (née Potter), became the first female pharmacist in the United Kingdom in 1870.[17]
Julia Pearl Hughes (1873-1950), the first African-American female pharmacist to own and operate her own drug store.[18]
Charlotte Jacobs, became the first female pharmacist in the Netherlands in 1879.
Caroline Copp, became the first female pharmacist in Australia in 1880.[19][20]
Anna Louise James (1886-1977), the first African-American female pharmacist in Connecticut.[21][22]
Ella P. Stewart (1893-1987), one of the first African-American female pharmacists in the United States.[23][24]
Christina Jesop Wilson, became the first female pharmacist to qualify in the south of Ireland in 1900.[25]
See also
List of first female pharmacists by country