"No scrubs : how women had to fight to become doctors"

The Medical Women's Federation

celebrate its century --> the strengthening : the position of women in medicine

// Agnodike = Athenian woman

Margaret Ann Bulkley --> Dr James Barry (surgeon)

History :

Reputation : surgical prowess + abrasive personality

1865 : death --> truth about her sex + have a child (discover by her charwoman)

Reason : to practice medecine

Dressed like a man, male persona, brute behaviour

Accused of seducing women

To refute : skirt-lifting

Famous gynaecologist

Save from execution by her patients

Cut off her hair + posed as a man --> study medecine under Herophilos

1870 : Elizabeth Garret Anderson - 1st English woman to qualify as a doctor

1876 : "Enabling Act" : allowed the licensing of both male and female doctors = legale change

Mid-19th century : demand to entry to medical school

1876 : Medical school + "The British Medical Association = accept women

Formalisation of medicine's: were excluded

1914/18 (1st WW) : women take up posts in hospitals

Middle Ages : worked as midwives, nurses, apothecaries, bone-setters and surgeons

Interwar : career obstacles (discrimination)

1948 : reasonable proportion of female medical students

2017 : outnumbers of female medical students