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Women's History Month
Women's History Month at HSL
During Women’s History Month, HSL celebrates women in healthcare and the biomedical sciences, across all gender identities and roles, as they work towards better health results for every patient. Women account for 38% of active physicians in the United States, and account for almost 90% of the U.S. nursing workforce. Yet globally, women hold only a quarter of healthcare leadership positions – and only 15.3% of U.S. health systems had a woman as CEO as of 2021. The number of women physicians does continue to grow, and as of 2019, 50.5% of medical students in the United States were women. However, issues like major income disparities between women and male physicians reflect continuing issues with equality for women in healthcare.
We need women in healthcare.
The following print books can be found near the Reserve collection in the lobby and are available for checkout.
Print Books
Burnout in Women Physicians: Prevention, Treatment, and Management by Call Number: R692 .B87 2020ISBN: 9783030444587Publication Date: 2020
Clinicians Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare by Call Number: RA564.9.S49 C55 2022ISBN: 9780826169150Publication Date: 2022
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Call Number: R692 .N56 2021bISBN: 9781324020202Publication Date: 2021
Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing by Call Number: RT4 .T63 2022ISBN: 9780226822907Publication Date: 2022
Duty Calls: Lessons Learned From an Unexpected Life of Service by Call Number: R154.N82 A3 2024ISBN: 9781682754467Publication Date: 2024
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Call Number: R695.B53 2024ISBN: 9780593491287Publication Date: 2024
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Call Number: RG734.R47 W75 2023ISBN: 9780306826795Publication Date: 2023
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Call Number: RD27.35.A45 A3 1999ISBN: 9780553100129Publication Date: 1999
Sex Cells: The Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare by Call Number: RA564.85 .G743 2024ISBN: 9798887700205Publication Date: 2024
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century by Call Number: R153.B76 2023ISBN: 9780807025086Publication Date: 2023
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Call Number: RA564.85 .C54 2021ISBN: 9780593182970Publication Date: 2021
Historical Collections
Additional Resources
Allen, S. V. (2023, April 28). Working toward gender equity in women’s health care. Mayo Clinic Press. https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health/working-toward-gender-equity-in-womens-health-care/
Boyle, P., Dill, M., Kelly, R., & Nouri, Z. (2024, May 28). Women are changing the face of medicine in America. AAMC. https://www.aamc.org/news/women-are-changing-face-medicine-america
Bridget, B. (2024, March 26). Why we know so little about women’s health. AAMC. https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2022). Improving representation in clinical trials and research: Building research equity for women and underrepresented groups. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26479
Rosseter, R. (2024, April). Nursing workforce fact sheet. AACN. https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-workforce-fact-sheet
- Women’s Health Equity InitiativeThe Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR)’s Women’s Health Equity Initiative was launched in 2021 to raise awareness, educate the public and policymakers, and to address longstanding disparities in women’s health care access and outcomes. This initiative recognizes that achieving true health equity for women requires a nuanced understanding of the diverse experiences shaped by intersecting factors such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, geographic location, and disability status, among others.