“As a joke, they voted ‘yes,’ and she gained ... After adjusting for age, experience, specialty and faculty rank, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers ...

Medical schools in Charleston ... They thought it was a joke, and voted her in unanimously. She had to convince her reproductive anatomy lecturer to let her stay in the class, because he thought ...

In 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to go to medical school. Never mind that at the ... the students thought the request was little more than a silly joke and voted unanimously to let her in ...

As she accepted her sheepskin, Charles Lee, the medical school’s dean ... thought the request was little more than a silly joke and voted unanimously to let her in; they were surprised, to ...