Radio documentary about pioneering women Doctors who weren't allowed to practice medicine on men until WWI made them acceptable

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Have only heard episodes 1 & 2. Lots of famous names such as Elizabeth Garret Anderson with really interesting cross over between women struggling to get medical training and suffragette activism.

I wonder if it was similar to what happened during WWII when lots of women were given opportunities to do work and be independent, but then were effectively sent back into the home post war.

Nearly forgot. BBC4 daily and on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmpp

I would be really interested to listen to this - in many ways it's v topical given the world's circumstances and how it'll end up being women that will adapt to change more quickly than men can in order to feed their families.

Thanks for sharing.

It's very good. It's based on this book:

www.waterstones.com/book/endell-street/wendy-moore/9781786495846

Interesting. My grandmother and her sister studied medicine in the late 1890s. Family lore has it that they were top in the exams, but allowed to graduate....

'not allowed'

I can't believe I've missed this as I have listened to so much Radio 4 during lock down. Thanks for the links stumbledin nauticant.

That's a fascinating piece of family history, AsTreesWalking. Two pioneers in one family! I think the University of London was the first British university to allow women to graduate. Oxford allowed women to study from the 1880s but they couldn't graduate until 1920. The Steamboat Ladies were a group of Oxbridge women who went over to Dublin where there was a reciprocal agreement so they could actually be awarded a degree:

www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-61643

Walking can well believe that. Victoria Drummond sat her marine engineers exams in the UK several times and they failed every other person (all male) in the room rather than let a woman pass.

Episode 3 just starting on Radio 4 now.

Cambridge resisted allowing women graduates until 1947. They allowed them to study but they had to go to Trinity College, Dublin to graduate.

Thanks for the interesting link Nettie. Their father was a very progressive man who thought his clever daughters should be properly educated.

I've been listening to this. It's inspirational! Caught the end of Desert Island Discs yesterday which was another inspirational woman (whose name I've forgotten - will look it up!)