Title: Walking out on the boys
First published: 1998
Description: 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.
Subjects: Biography, Neurosurgeons, Neurosurgery, Personal narratives, Physicians, Women, Sex discrimination in medicine, Women physicians, Women surgeons, Prejudice, Sex discrimination in medical education, Surgeons, biography
Places: California
People: Frances K. Conley
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RD592.9.C66 A3 1998