RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Rediscovery of the Need for a Feminist Medical Education
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 447
OP 466
DO 10.17763/haer.49.4.3220j044453t6509
VO 49
IS 4
A1 Walsh, Mary Roth
YR 1979
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/49/4/447.abstract
AB For well over a century, women have sought acceptance in the medical profession. The first breakthrough in this effort, in the late nineteenth century, resulted in a "golden age": women then accounted for up to half of some medical school graduating classes. These early successes were not followed by subsequent gains. The twentieth century became a period of stagnation for women physicians with respect to both their number and their power. Against the background of this earlier history, this article analyzes contemporary efforts to empower women as physicians.