Paediatrist Mária Jesenská: Ivica Ruttkayová talks to one of the first Slovak women doctors Cover Image

Pediatrička Mária Jesenská. Rozhovor Ivice Ruttkayovej s jednou z prvých slovenských lekárok Ivica Ruttkayová
Paediatrist Mária Jesenská: Ivica Ruttkayová talks to one of the first Slovak women doctors

Author(s): Ivica Ruttkayová
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: ASPEKT
Keywords: career – women – doctor – Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: In the first half of the 20th century the professional careers were set very strictly in Slovakia – men were doctors, women nurses. Mária Jesenská as one amongst first Slovak women disrupted this model and became the first woman paediatrist in Turiec region in Slovakia.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 262-264
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Slovak
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