Women have potential and equal rights

Agnodice had to cut her hair short,

to match a smart young Greek lad

couldn't trust own get up in d' mirror,

looked utterly decent, not at all bad

Girls, forbidden to study medicine,

in ancient Greece, the statutes firm

entered d' Medical school as a man,

to complete her medical curriculum

While walking the streets of Athens,

she heard d' cry of a woman in labor

writhing with pain, yet refused d' help,

though she was a full-fledged doctor

She wanted Agnodice not to touch her,

as she assumed he was an adult man

how to assure, get up matters d' least,

in reality, she's not male, but a woman

In isolation, she removed her clothes,

proved to her that she was a woman

and permitted to conduct the delivery

things went smoothly, with little pain

This event spread among the women,

approached by d' women who fell sick

her fame fanned out fast far and wide,

d' envious male Drs accused Agnodice

Must be seducing d' female patients,

she was inferred as a usual male Dr.

but got shocked, once they gathered,

the information about her true gender

Brought before d' court on this charge,

persuading women to an illegal relation

polygamy treated as a serious crime,

shatters d' family harmony & relation

After d' trial awarded a death sentence,

revealed she was a woman, not a man

be exempted from capital punishment,

d' charges null and void, she's a woman

This time, again sentenced to death,

for studying and practicing medicine

strict prohibition for females to study,

it's a punishable crime, a shameful sin

The message spread fast like wildfire,

women, even wives of judges revolted

disgusted with the injustice to females,

to serve humanity why be prevented

Few threatened if Agnodice was killed,

they would go to their deaths with her

won't withstand d' inequity of gender,

intolerable, unacceptable, and unfair

Mammoth pressure built up on judges,

was copious to lift Agnodice's sentence

from then on, women were allowed to

practice medicine, no gender prejudice

She made a glaring mark in history, as

the 1st female doctor and gynecologist

the gender mask was dropped, proved

women have potential and equal rights