Walking out on the boys

In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this controversial, forthright memoir, Conley portrays the world of academic medicine in which women are still considered inferior; she also explains why, as a consequence, the research and treatment of women's health problems lag far behind those of men. In assessing why women's careers and psyches are suffering, Conley provides a first-person look into what it is like to be an accomplished woman within this restrictive medical world, offering invaluable advice to patients and future doctors alike.

First sentence: On May 22, 1991, I resigned my position as a tenured full professor on neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Editions

2

Pages

245

ISBN

9780374525958

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