Abstract
Women education is the first and the most important step towards attaining women empowerment. Writing and publishing textbooks for medical education is a challenging work, especially by women. This article intends to compile personal information and books published by women in different specialities so as to give recognition to such women on this International Women’s Day. Forty women were shortlisted who have either written or edited textbooks, out of which gynaecology and anatomy were the dominant specialities where contribution of the women was seen maximum. Along with textbooks, these women have many publications in indexed journals and are the recipient of famous awards in their fields. Contributions of these empowered women should be documented more often in literature so that more and more younger women get to know them.
Highlights
Indian women authors who have contributed to medicalWomen empowerment means the action of raising the status of women through education, literacy, and training [1]
Author α σ: e-mails: manishi1@yahoo.com, drshashiraheja@gmail.com textbooks for medical as well as para-medical students were included in the analysis whereas authors who have edition) which is widely read by medical students all exclusively written practical books and viva books were over the world
Dr Neeta V Kulkarni is another iconic woman in gynaecology (13 authors), followed by anatomy
Summary
Women empowerment means the action of raising the status of women through education, literacy, and training [1]. Methodology women and achieving gender equality is essential for our society to ensure the sustainable development of the country and literacy is the foremost important step towards attaining it This was aptly realised long back in early 19th century by two Indian women, Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi and Kadambini Ganguly [2]. At the age of fourteen, Anandibai gave birth to a boy, but the child died after ten days due to lack of medical care This proved to be a turning point in Anandi's life and inspired her to become a physician [3]. We contacted head of the departments of various institutes and asked them for information on women authors in their peer group.
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