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I went to medical school at a time when women were just beginning to be seen in large numbers in medicine and science. My class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was a quarter women, and that was the largest proportion they’d ever had. I ran into all of the challenges you’d imagine—being one of a very few minority women on clinical rotations, being picked on or ignored because I was female or because I was black, or maybe both.

Source: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers - July 16, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Marie A. Bernard, Deputy Director, National Institute on Aging Source Type: blogs