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Walking Out on the Boys
Walking Out on the Boys
Author: Frances K. Conley
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 c...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374525958
ISBN-10: 0374525951
Publication Date: 6/4/1999
Pages: 264
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The account of the resignation of the first female neurosurgeon in the country. Conley's detailed memoir of her involvement in medicine since the 1960s brings us into a world of the old boys' club, where women were treated as nothing more than submissive to top surgeons. No one was safe from insults--not even this top neurosurgeon.

We all know that this kind of power struggle still exists in male dominated fields.
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