Medicinal modernity

NEWER:

"Women represent 1 of 3 physicians and surgeons but they earn only 69 cents for every dollar their male colleagues earn. Male physicians made $202,533 on average in 2013, while female doctors had a median income of $140,036 that year, according to new national data." 

"There were only two healthcare jobs in which women's earnings were at least 97% of men's: massage therapists and dietitians/nutritionists. "

 ~ http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150316/NEWS/150319919


OLDER:

"Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. They were abortionists, nurses and counsellors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called 'wise women' by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities."

"...we have been incorporated as workers into an industry where the bosses are men. We are no longer independent practitioners, known by our own names, for our own work. We are, for the most part, institutional fixtures filling faceless job slots: clerk, dietary aide, technician, maid."

 ~ https://www.feministpress.org/sites/default/files/witches_midwives_and_nurses_excerpt.pdf (page 25 & 26)