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Against the Odds: Pioneering Women Doctors

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Against the Odds: Pioneering Women Doctors

4 June 2025 First published RNZ

Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women Doctors covers a 70 year period from the 1890s to 1967 - with biographies of 150 of the 400 female Otago graduates over that time. Kathryn Ryan talks to the book's co-authors, Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway.