{"id":22243,"date":"2019-12-06T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=22243"},"modified":"2019-12-06T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:56:54","slug":"this-is-not-your-grandmothers-feminist-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2019\/12\/06\/this-is-not-your-grandmothers-feminist-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not Your Grandmother’s Feminist Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the fall of 2017, there has been a change in New York City. If you are a New Yorker, you may have felt an influx of power surging every fall. More likely is that you noticed nothing unless you are a woman in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FemInEM<\/a> is a New York-based organization, or should I say movement? The movement was started by the visionary Dara Kass M.D.<\/a>, a Columbia University-based emergency medicine physician. While it is impressive to start a national organization, as a woman Dr. Kass needs to be 20% more impressive than her male colleagues to get your attention. So, she also donated an organ to her child and wrote a children\u2019s book on feminism. She\u2019s The Man. And that statement reminds us why we need her.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FemInEM started with the purpose of supporting equality in medicine \u2014 \u201cWe are FemInEM \u2014 an open-access resource where we discuss, discover, and affect the journey of women working in emergency medicine.\u201d It is an organization that first catered to physicians in emergency medicine, but due to its message of equality, it quickly expanded to all medical specialties and other health professionals. The FemInEM annual conference, the FemInEM Idea Exchange (FIX), has encompassed other minority issues, hosting speakers on transgender and racial equality in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 2019 marked the third annual FIX Conference in New York City. Since last year\u2019s conference attendees grew 30%. This year\u2019s conference hosted speakers on such \u201corphan issues\u201d as global warming, alcoholism in health care workers, and reproductive challenges, including miscarriage among medical professionals. These are issues that are not likely to appear at major academic conferences, by speakers who would not have an opportunity to share their insights. Dr. Kass built them a stage and gave them a voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FemInEM seems to have been a much-needed spark, setting ablaze the next feminist movement in medicine. Other organizations are now gaining momentum. For instance, Dr. Kass is also a founding member of TIME\u2019S UP Healthcare<\/a>. TIME\u2019S Up Healthcare was founded by 53 inspirational women, fighting to end workplace discrimination, harassment, and abuse in medicine. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women in medicine are banding together and seem to agree, this is not your grandmother\u2019s feminist movement. Although eternally grateful and indebted to the women who fought to build the foundation of feminism, this time women are going all the way to equal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are these continued inequalities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can become a doctor, but if you want to be a leader, the support is lacking. According to the American Academy of Medical Colleges (AAMC), just 14%<\/a> of department chairs and senior leaders are women. This is not surprising, as the face of American wealth and power \u2014 the dollar bill, still only depictsonlywhite men. Speaking of money, women are going to need the rest of our paycheck, all 100% of it. Finally, the weight of a woman\u2019s word must be equal to men. For example, our society has sided with accused serial sexual abusers, until groups of hundreds of women come forward against a single man. Beyond being criminal, this issue should be considered a public health issue. It should only take one woman\u2019s word.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some individuals demean the struggle for equality. Even some women who feel that feminism<\/em> is a dirty word. It seems easily forgotten that in the United States women started as property. We haven\u2019t even had the right to vote for 100 years! (Note that the 2020 election marks 100 years of women voting rights. Make your vote count). Women have not been given anything and the struggle for the rights we hold is called feminism.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women should proudly celebrate the struggle against oppression that has brought us forward. We should commend ourselves, just as other oppressed people band together to praise and protect what they have achieved. It may not be lady-like, but it is feminist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women must fight harder. The feminist movement is not over, and in medicine women need organizations like FemInEM and TIME\u2019S UP Healthcare to band us together to continue to fight for equality, to celebrate our triumphs and our history. Leaders in health care have a responsibility to set a positive example for society by supporting and amplifying this movement for equality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, women need each other for strength. We need the women\u2019s club for support. The day when the old boys\u2019 club is interested in reciprocal membership, we will know we are equal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece originally appeared here<\/a> on Doximity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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