"Yentl, the 19th-century heroine of Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, ... had to disguise herself as a man to attend school and study the . Being "just like a man" has historically been a price women have had to pay for equality. Being different from men has meant being second-class and less than equal for most of recorded time and throughout most of the world. It may therefore be sad, but not surprising, that women have all too often been treated less than equally in social relations, political endeavors, business, education, research, and health care."
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Bernadine Healy
(August 4, 1944 – August 6, 2011) was an American cardiologist, medical school professor, president from 1988 to 1989 of the , director from 1991 to 1993 of the (NIH), and president from 1999 to 2001 of the .
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