. >> and margaret chung. >> margot margaret was the first chinese american woman actually to attend medical school. she graduated from usc in the early 190 ohs, i think 1910 something like that and she opened a medical practice in san francisco. she was a surgeon in world war ii and established the first woman's volunteer service organization in america. so these aren't just, you know, small accomplishments. these women were quite amazing. >> well, wendy we're out of time on the air. but we can continue the conversation over on facebook live. i do want to tell people raleigho real quickly about your blog. it is she is california.com. we have 20 seconds. >> right. so i'm attempting to chronicle all these women so people are aware that california had a significant contribution from women. very, very early on. so please go check it out. >> all right. let's join us over on facebook live right now and we'll try to pull up the blog and thanks, wendy. >> all right. bye. >>> and thank you so much for joining us on this interactive show, "getting answers." we talked about the reopening bill for dra

and many of you maybe have heard of margaret chung a famous chinese-american doctor and a suffragist and cheung also defied gender norms in the early 20th century. he men's style hat and style jacket. she would wear walk with a cane. she would drink smoke gamble and she was considered pretty out there for her time, but she was also a pioneering physician a woman doctor. she was famous for pushing back against the patriarchy and arguing for the rights of women. not only in mainstream society, but also in china the rights of women in the united states in the rights of women in china, and so she was fighting for the rights of chinese americans as well and against segregation and discrimination in american society. so in addition to pushing against gender norms these suffragists also pushed against norms of heterosexuality and we can see this in their private lives. so we have to delve a little bit deeper now away from their public personas into their private lives and what we discover is that many of the suffragists propped up this public image of heterosexuality. well living their own