78. The Admission of Women to Medical Studies

In recent days, the participants of the Doctors' Conference in Wiesbaden have decided not to vote in favor of admitting women to medical school until the other faculties also decide to admit women to their ranks. So the medical men are of the opinion that there should only be female doctors when there are also female judges, lawyers and pastors. Now this is too naive to believe that an assembly of serious men would come to such a decision. There is an old saying that all those who took part in the resolution in question are certainly familiar with, and which seems to have vanished from the memory of these participants only in the Wiesbaden air. This sentence means: Everything is not good for everyone. I can imagine people who would be quite happy for women to be gynecologists, for example, but to whom a female pastor preaching in the pulpit would seem like a comical figure. But such things are simple; and such simple things have probably not occurred to the learned gentlemen in Wiesbaden.