Women in Medicine Resource Guide: Welcome

The article presents the history and role of women in surgery. It argues that such history has dated back as early as 3500 before the Common Era and began during the time of Queen Shubad of Ur. Such profession among women proliferated in a number of countries during the early times which include Egypt, Italy, and Greece. It also presents the contributions of women in the field of surgery such as Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Miranda Stewart.

The article discusses the gender of nurse and physician in the evolution of medicine. It explains that numbers of women in medical courses today are increasing, breaking the hierarchy of gender that nurses comprised only for women and doctors were for men. It introduces the comparison of male and female nurses as well as the society's gendered role of expectation in the students point of view. It reveals that equality of sexes and equal opportunity in acquiring profession in medicine are contemporarily practiced by subjugating the division of labor.

The article focuses on the obstacles faced by the second generation of women in Canada entering professional medicine. Topics mentioned include information on Winnipeg obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Elinor Black, the impact of the second wave of feminism in the late 20th century on women in medicine and health, and the emergence of James Miranda Barry as the first woman to be identified a doctor in Canada.

Videos from the "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition of the National Library of Medicine. Includes segments on these female physicians:
Nancy Snyderman
Nancy Jasso
Nereida Correa
Patricia Standtal-Clarke
Marcella Fierro
Katherine Flores
Colonel Rhonda Cornum
Julie Gerberding
Donna Christensen
Mary Ellen Avery
Linda Shortliffe