Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2016
Abstract
It is also pertinent to recognize that the issue of women in medicine is not new. One hundred years ago a group of female doctor volunteers offered their services to the British War Office but were refused.
Instead they managed to obtain support from Allied governments and worked in Greece, Serbia, and France. After the war and with a wealth of surgical experience, its Chief Medical Officer, surgeon Louise McIlroy, returned to the male-dominated London medical scene and became the country's first ever female Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.7 A century later things have certainly improved, yet further progress is still achievable.