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and here’s an excerpt from an article in the NYTimes that’s over 10 years old but still seems to be true:

“By the end of the century, ”regular medicine” – the male medical establishment – emphasized laboratory science and experimentation, so the microorganisms responsible for specific diseases could be identified and attacked. Women doctors, often clinging to some of the traditions of ”irregular medicine,” emphasized holistic healing and prevention. Mrs. Morantz-Sanchez acknowledges these poles but insists on a more complex history. Women in medicine have never been united in their perspectives, she says, and most have used both approaches to healing; they have been less active in medical science partly because of discrimination and harassment.”