Against the Odds Combining gripping narrative

Combining gripping narrative

‘264 pages of pure pleasure’ — Andy McGechan

Families were broken up as soldiers departed

Others change how we think about language itself

is a masterful visualisation of McDowall’s data

Against the Odds Combining gripping narrativeThe women who battled prejudice and indifference to become doctors In 2025, the year Otago Medical School celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates are women. Back in 1891, by contrast, when Emily Siedeberg, who would go on to become the schools first woman graduate, applied for entrance it was not at all clear that it would be granted. This book traces the paths of the women who, between the 1890s and 1967, battled indifference and chauvinism