In 1873 she gained membership of the British Medical Association and remained the only woman member for 19 years, due to the Association's vote against the admission of further women – " one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her.

In the fall of 1862, Confederate laws were changed to permit the employment of women in hospitals as members of the Confederate Medical Department.

Medical consideration of hermaphroditism depended upon measurements of the clitoris ; a longer, engorged clitoris was thought to be used by women to penetrate other women.

The American Medical Association has estimated that several million US women suffer from a female sexual arousal disorder, though arousal is not at all synonymous with desire, so this finding is of limited relevance to the discussion of libido.

* 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School ( which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine ), opens.

* November 1 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School ( which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine ), opens.

In 2006, a study by Doron Behar and Karl Skorecki of the Technion and Ramban Medical Center in Haifa, Israel demonstrated that the vast majority of Ashkenazi Jews, both men and women, have Middle Eastern ancestry.

Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a federal prison and health facility for women, is located in the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

Dr. Nick has a medical degree from " Hollywood Upstairs Medical College ", where he apparently spent much of his time using his ability to acquire prescription drugs in the 1970s to impress a succession of attractive women who were typically taller than him.

The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study, carried out by the departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Internal Medicine of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the University of Southampton in Britain, found that the children of pregnant women exposed to famine were more susceptible to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, microalbuminuria and other health problems.

In February 1886, he chaired a meeting at the Medical Society in Cavendish Square to establish a medical scholarship to be awarded to women.

In 1868, he had delivered an address to the British Medical Association at Oxford in which he referred to a peculiar form of disease occurring mostly in young women, and characterised by extreme emaciation.

During his presidency, women were admitted to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School for the first time.

It was during his presidency that the first class of women were admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1945, and Harvard Law School in 1950.

She graduated from Cornell Medical College, New York City in 1899, as part of the first class at that school that accepted women as medical students.

Medical professionals think it is caused by an irregularity in sensory nerves, and note that the disorder has a tendency to strike post-menopausal women, or those who have undergone hormonal treatment.

, fifty-eight people are on the federal death row for men at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana ; two women located at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, are on the federal death row.

As of 2010, the two women on federal death row, Angela Johnson and Lisa M. Montgomery, are held at Federal Medical Center, Carswell.

An independent study published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics reports there was " no evidence of heightened risk for the elderly, women, the uninsured, people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or chronically ill, minors, people with psychiatric illnesses including depression, or racial or ethnic minorities, compared with background populations.

With other ladies of progressive views, she helped raise funds for the Johns Hopkins University Medical School on the condition that it admit women.

* Clinical trials for this drug regarding women in Zimbabwe were controversial with regards to human rights abuses and Medical Experimentation in Africa.

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

In 1945, Bishop S. Crouch of the Northern California Jurisdiction appointed Elder H. C. Johnson as State Sunday School Superintendent, He in turn appointed Missionary Lucille Cornelius to be his Chairlady, the first woman to work with the women in the Sunday School Department.

Historically, women in ministry in COGIC are known as missionaries and are designated in two categories — Deaconess Missionary and Evangelist Missionary.

She and six other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ( M. S. C.

His faith in the Lord and trust for Africa lead him to establish, in 1867 and 1872 respectively, two missionary Institutes of men and of women: these become known more widely as the " Comboni Missionaries " and the " Comboni Missionary Sisters ", also known as the " Verona Fathers and Sisters ".

* Returned Missionary, a phrase used by Mormons to refer to young men and women who have served as full-time missionaries

Though women are not ordained, they are licenced as social, senior, and field Missionaries through the organization's International Missionary Department.

A number of Non-Profit Organisations and Charities such as Volunteer Missionary Movement, Daughters of Charity Education and Training Service, Ruhama ( Supporting women affected by prostitution and human trafficking ), Accord Catholic Marriage Counselling, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Console ( Living with Suicide ) are based on campus.

Wives who eloped could be deported to Japan, following the Japanese civil code that granted the husbands the ability to decide the new residency of their wife ; for those women, the Women ’ s Home Missionary Society in the United States provided temporary housing while they waited to go back to Japan.

In 1909, she started the School of Nursing and, in 1918, a medical school for women was opened under the name Missionary Medical School for Women.

Catching her vision, Southern Baptist women organized local Women's Missionary Societies and even Sunbeam Bands for children to promote missions and collect funds to support missions.

Not long after their arrival, and led by their Mother Superior, Mother Marie Louise De Meester, the Sisters went on to form an independent religious congregation called the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine, composed of many local Indian women as well as Europeans.

When she became the first woman to hold the Junior Fellowship at Harvard, Nussbaum received a congratulatory note from a " prestigious classicist " who suggested that since " female fellowess " was an awkward name, she should be called hetaira, for in Greece these educated courtesans were the only women who participated in philosophical symposia.

Affirmation of women in ministry was one of the founding principles of the Fellowship.

In 2003 Samantha Lee as chair of the NCGC was financed by a Churchill Fellowship to publish a paper arguing that current handgun legislation is too loose, that police officers who are shooters have a conflict of interest, and that licensed private firearm ownership per se presents a threat to women and children.

* 2010: The International Rabbinic Fellowship, a fellowship of about 150 Orthodox rabbis, adopted a resolution stating that properly trained Orthodox Jewish women should have the opportunity to serve as " teachers of Torah ", " persons who can answer questions and provide guidance to both men and women in all areas of Jewish law in which they are well-versed ", " clergy who function as pastoral counselors ", " spiritual preachers and guides who teach classes and deliver divrei Torah and derashot, in the synagogue and out, both during the week and on Shabbatot and holidays ", " spiritual guides and mentors helping arrange and managing life-cycle events such as weddings, bar-and bat-mitzvah celebrations and funerals, while refraining from engaging in those aspects of these events that Halakha does not allow for women to take part in " and " presidents and full members of the boards of synagogues and other Torah institutions "; the resolution does not, however, mention whether these women should or can be ordained or what titles they can hold.

* 2010: Delegates of the Fellowship of the Middle East Evangelical Churches unanimously voted in favor of a statement supporting the ordination of women as pastors, during their Sixth General Assembly.

" The Fellowship is simply, " men and women who are trying to get right with God.

He was a social activist advocating for social justice for gays, women and Native Hawaiians throughout his life, and was one of the original founders of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

Younan served as president of the Fellowship of the Middle East Evangelical Churches ( FMEEC ) in 2004-2010, which during his presidency unanimously voted if favor of the ordination of women as pastors.

Using a German Marshall Fellowship awarded in 1985, she drew lessons from the United States of America for the United Kingdom for programmes to improve the status of women.

Morse was awarded the National Right to Work Foundation's Right to Work Communication Fellowship Award in 2003, which is given to a " journalist who has done a great deal to communicate to the public about the struggle against union tyranny and abuse encountered by America's working men and women.