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Women and humanitarianism: not just a story of nurses

She was nicknamed “the lady with the lamp”. During the Crimean War, British nurse Florence Nightingale carried out her rounds with an oil lamp. The image – a figure in Victorian dress soothing scarred soldiers – left its mark on journalists of the time. Widely relayed, it will make Nightingale the founder of nursing (you can even visit her museum in London). And the emblem of the role of women in humanitarian work.

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