Dr. Hales is the Director of the Division of Education at the American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia. Address correspondence to Dr. Hales, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209; dhales{at}psych.org (E-mail). Im pleased to have been invited to comment on this special issue of Academic Psychiatry on women in academic psychiatry. I found my appreciation of the articles enriched with reflection on overarching trends in the experiences of women in this country over the past several decades. The historian Gary Wills captured the nature of the changing status of women with these words in the New York Review of Books: There could not be a deeper transformation of all social arrangements. Change the status of women, alter the whole concept of womanhood, and the most intimate relationships are challenged, subverted, or reestablished at their inmost nexusthe relationships of wife to husband, husband to wife; of mother to children, of daughters to parents and siblings, of men to women employers or employees or professional colleagues (1). Moreover, Mr. Wills marveled at the rapidity of the pace of change: future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was asked upon her graduation from Harvard Law School, by Dean Erwin Griswold to justify
Reflections on Women and Psychiatry
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Dr. Hales is the Director of the Division of Education at the American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, Virginia. Address correspondence to Dr. Hales, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209; dhales{at}psych.org (E-mail). Im pleased to have been invited to comment on this special issue of Academic Psychiatry on women in academic psychiatry. I found my appreciation of the articles enriched with reflection on overarching trends in the experiences of women in this country over the past several decades. The historian Gary Wills captured the nature of the changing status of women with these words in the New York Review of Books: There could not be a deeper transformation of all social arrangements. Change the status of women, alter the whole concept of womanhood, and the most intimate relationships are challenged, subverted, or reestablished at their inmost nexusthe relationships of wife to husband, husband to wife; of mother to children, of daughters to parents and siblings, of men to women employers or employees or professional colleagues (1). Moreover, Mr. Wills marveled at the rapidity of the pace of change: future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was asked upon her graduation from Harvard Law School, by Dean Erwin Griswold to justifyPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Reflections on Women and Psychiatry
Hales, Deborah J.
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, Volume 28 (4): 282
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Dec 1, 2004
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