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Women leaders
posted at 17/5/2010 5:15 PM BST
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BMJ blogger Richard Smith is after a favour. He teaches leadership at Warwick University Medical School and needs examples of well known women leaders before his next class. He's already dismissed Mother Teresa as too flakey, and, according to him, there's something dodgy about Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Joan of Arc, Indira Ghandi, and Cleopatra, among others. And how relevant are they to medicine anyway? So can you get nominating some women? |
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Re: Women leaders
posted at 18/5/2010 4:00 AM BST
on bmj.com
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Dame Sheila Sherlock, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Turner-Warwick, Priscilla Kincade-Smith, Caroline Chisholm spring to mind. How about Jessica Watson, a 16 year old Australian girl who just circumnavigated the world and is the youngest person so far. She is not medical but has done a lot for younger people as an example. She arrived in Sydney on Saturday. How about Edith Cowan MBE, Dame Nellie Melba (viz. peach Melba),and Dame Joan Sutherland and Dame Margot Fonteyn?
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Re: Women leaders
posted at 20/5/2010 5:40 PM BST
on bmj.com
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My vote goes to Elaine Morgan who has championed the aquatic ape theory for years - a theory that chimes with all my medical instincts but has been dismiissed for years by (usually male) scientists |
