Book Launch: Against the Odds - New Zealand's first women doctors
Saturday, 31st May 2025 4:30 PM
University Book Shop Otago, 378 Great King Street, Dunedin
Please join Massey University Press and University Book Shop Otago to celebrate the launch of Against the Odds: New Zealand’s first women doctors by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway as part of the Otago Medical School 150th Anniversary Celebration.
All welcome!
ABOUT THE BOOK
In 2025, the year Otago Medical School celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates are women. Back in 1891, by contrast, when Emily Siedeberg, who would go on to become the school’s first woman graduate, applied for entrance it was not at all clear that it would be granted.
This book traces the paths of the women who, between the 1890s and 1967, battled indifference and chauvinism — and later many of the other challenges that faced women in the professions — to become New Zealand’s first women doctors.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Professor Cynthia (Cindy) Farquhar is Postgraduate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.
Michaela Selway is a PhD student in early medieval history at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Professor Cynthia (Cindy) Farquhar is Postgraduate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.
Michaela Selway is a PhD student in early medieval history at the University of Tübingen, Germany.