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The OUWB Medical Library maintains an ongoing collection of books, eBooks, and other resources in celebration of women in medicine. The following guide organizes our Women in Medicine Collection by topic area including work-life balance, personal stories, and history.
We're always looking for additional titles to add so send us an email if you have another resource to add!
Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family by 
The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life by 
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by 
Mama, PhD by 
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out by 
Mothers in Academia by 
Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia by 
Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by 
The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America by 
The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life by 
Gender, Work and Medicine: Women and the Medical Division of Labour by 
Stress and Women Physicians by 
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by 
Women Don't Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation--and Positive Strategies for Change by 
Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill by 
Women in Medicine: Career and Life Management by 
Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing, and Advancing by 
Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine by 
Being a Woman Surgeon: Sixty Women Share their Stories by 
Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine: Perspectives of Women Faculty by 
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine by 
To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story by 
Joycelyn Elders, M. D.: : From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America by 
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency by 
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by 
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body by 
Against all Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine by The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America by 
Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine by 
Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–199 by 
