Letters from Women in Pharmacy: Stories on Integrating Life and Career

Letters from Women in Pharmacy: Stories on Integrating Life and Career
Author: Sara J. White
Publisher: ASHP
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1585286141

Letters from Women in Pharmacy: Stories on Integrating Life and Career focuses on the unique challenges and opportunities faced by women in pharmacy. This collection of 31 personal letters represents experiences of women from a wide array of backgrounds and career paths. Each letter is filled with practical advice, insights, and compelling stories on developing strong support systems and maintaining healthy perspectives on the many roles that women balance to inspire generations of future pharmacy leaders. This Letters publication was stimulated by the ASHP 2016 Women in Pharmacy Leadership Steering Committee recommendation to ASHP: Proactively collect and share stories, case studies and scenarios of how women have addressed gender, workplace, work-life integration, and leadership challenges. The power of this publication comes from each person’s specific journey, all unique but similar in reaching for their potential as both a pharmacist and woman. It emphasizes the multiple successful approaches to blending a career and personal life.

Women's Letters

Women's Letters
Author: Lisa Grunwald
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2009-01-21
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0307493334

Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

Letters to a Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life & Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists

Letters to a Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life & Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists
Author: Susan A. Cantrell
Publisher: ASHP
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1585284017

Most of us have received very little, if any, formal training on how to manage our lives and careers. In Letters to a Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life & Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists, find expert advice and guidance for the choices and challenges you will face. Written by 35 leading pharmacists, these very personal letters offer sound advice and insight for seizing or creating opportunities, balancing career and family, avoiding mistakes, and overcoming setbacks. Gain from the wisdom and practical advice offered in these letters on such topics as: Finding the right job or residency Developing productive partnerships The importance of networking Thinking creatively to design new therapies Working well in the culture of your organization Understanding your strengths and weaknesses … and much more. Learn from people who have faced many of the same career and life experiences that lie ahead of you. More than a book, Letters to a Young Pharmacist is a companion guide for your life’s work— and a must-have for every new pharmacist.

American Women Pharmacists

American Women Pharmacists
Author: Metta Lou Henderson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002-03-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780789010926

“Many famous women, and many more unknown and forgotten, have been before me, making the path smooth, and regulating my steps.” -Virginia Woolf As a woman pharmacist, the author agrees wholeheartedly with the above statement. Her new book American Women Pharmacists: Contributions to the Profession names the pioneering women in the field and discusses the roles that women--both famous and unknown--have played in the field of pharmacy. This unique book consolidates information from a wide variety of sources into a single reference on women in pharmacy. Beginning with the early colonial days and extending to the present, this well-referenced volume examines the role of women in pharmacy. It illustrates the many (often heretofore untold) accomplishments of these women, looks at women pharmacists in relation to other women of their time, and analyzes the factors that influenced their roles. American Women Pharmacists: Contributions to the Profession discusses the increasing presence of these women in their field and the important roles they played. American Women Pharmacists: Contributions to the Profession also provides you with: tables that provide easy access to information on pharmacy organizations and pharmacy education appendixes that name women graduates and faculty members of pharmaceutical colleges, prominent women in the field, Grand Presidents of pharmaceutical organizations and fraternities, and awards given by those concerns an extensive bibliography to help you find additional information information about what happened to women in the field during and following the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II a look at the formation of the first professional sorority for women in pharmacy, Lambda Kappa Sigma, in 1913 . . . and much more! At the end of the twentieth century, women pharmacists comprise nearly half of the profession. Serving in every capacity, including clinical, research, educational, and leadership roles, women have arrived at an equal partnership level with their male counterparts. American Women Pharmacists: Contributions to the Profession is the story of their ascension into the ranks of respected professionals in the field.

The Little Women Letters

The Little Women Letters
Author: Gabrielle Donnelly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451617194

With her older sister planning a wedding and her younger sister preparing to launch a career on the stage, Lulu can't help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut. When her mother sends her to look for some old family recipes in the attic, she stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. Jo writes in detail about every aspect of her life: her older sister Meg's new home and family; her younger sister Amy's many admirers; the family's shared grief over losing Beth; and her own feelings towards a handsome young German. As Lulu delves deeper into the lives of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance, but can her great-great-grandmother help Lulu find a place in a world so different from the one Jo knew?--From publisher description.

Becoming a Woman of Letters

Becoming a Woman of Letters
Author: Linda H. Peterson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400833256

During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.

Letter to Women

Letter to Women
Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II)
Publisher: USCCB Publishing
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781574550528

Pope John Paul II extols the "genius of women" and applauds the contributions of women as they "enrich the world's understanding and help to make human relations more honest."

Letters To Philip

Letters To Philip
Author: Charles Shedd
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0307820483

Here is a warm, witty, and wise book for every young man who has ever wondered what to do and say in difficult situations with the opposite sex. Dr. Shedd offers helpful hints on how to turn a complaint into a compliment and much more.

Letter to a Young Female Physician

Letter to a Young Female Physician
Author: Suzanne Koven
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1324007141

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine. Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood. Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world.