Prof Ora Paltiel gave the main talk at a meeting organised together with the UK Medical Women’s Federation. The theme was the role of women in medicine from an Israeli perspective. Prof Parveen Kumar (who had visited Israel as Henry Cohen Visiting Professor and met with the leading women in Israeli medicine) and Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones (i.e. past President and President of the Medical Womens’ Federation respectively) discussed the comparative status of medical women in the two countries; and Association members Dr Naomi Katz and Dr Nicola Rosenfelder provided their perspectives on the current situation in the UK.
Women in Medicine – Israeli and UK Perspectives