September 30, 2005

Celebrating Women in Medicine month

In commemoration of Women in Medicine month, the Office for Women's Careers held a screening of highlights from the PBS documentary "If Women Ruled the World" Sept. 19 in the O'Keeffe Auditorium. The documentary — a two-hour special featuring a 1999 dinner party in Washington, DC's Senate Caucus Room on Capitol Hill — celebrated women from diverse cultural, ethnic, generational and professional backgrounds. Guests included Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, feminist pioneer Betty Friedan and Newsweek's Eleanor Clift.

The screening was followed by a panel discussion about gender equity in medicine. Moderated by Judy Foreman, a nationally syndicated health columnist, the panel included Isaac Schiff, MD, chief of the MGH Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service; Virginia G. Drachman, PhD, chair of the Department of History at Tufts University; and Richard Karz, producer of the documentary.

The panel, from left, Schiff, Drachman and Karz