{"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