Some great topic in this female-all-over population but females-not-quite-there-yet situation. This topic brings to mind a few career-decison-related conversations with someone close. She was sure and she will be impacted by this.
It's good that you are also bringing it out in the open. Bring it on and let it be worn to a good realization – to the changing fortunes of women.
It's a beautiful world, everyone should be at an equal footing, gender wise.

We really never think of all the many things that have gone on behind the scenes for years when you go in to have any kind of surgery. Neurology is another story...tough!!!! I can't imagine the dedication in getting thru school, internship then being on your own and operating on a human being who has his/her every hope and dream on what you do or don't do in your hands. This would be tough for anyone man or women but really tough for a women. I believe we think of doctors as someone that "just knows what to do" but truth of the matter they are human being and the have emotions and it has to be tough. I, personally do not feel that way with the neurologist and neurosurgeon I use which are men. I would not have a problem using a female neurosurgeon, there are just not any around. My doctors are both Godly men and my surgeon prays with his team before he operates on his patients. My neurologist has prayed with me before a procedure to help comfort me from fear...so they know they are not alone in what they are doing and that it easier when I have had to have surgery.
I do not think any doctor can do surgery after surgery on his own, that he must look to a higher power to strengthen him and provide him with the knowledge he/she must have to do the right thing...male or female!!

Women should be more involved in creating balance of powers in America and in the world and put an end to the Global Crisis stemming from Power Imblanace of multidimensions!

My answer would have been that I'd already used one for stereotactic implantation of anterior horn explants into rat brains. But, I decided not to go for neurosurgery (or neurology) despite prior research.

I was actually lucky enough to have been on Olga Jonasson's service with some really stellar surgeons and not too bad physicians. (Can you tell I became a flea rather than a blade?) And, there was a neurosurgery faculty member who also happened to be a woman – even back then.

More to the discussion, notice that although there are now women presidents of major universities, there is still a dearth of tenured women in academic medicine, just as there are still quite the minority of women in the highest executive offices of the major corporations. (I applaud the various journalists restraint during the discussion of Obama's "boys club" at the inclusion of Larry Sommers as the chief economic adviser who was pressured into stepping down as President of Harvard (with a woman successor) for his remarks that women do not have what it takes to make it in the sciences.

It is difficult to be a woman in a male-dominated world, especially if the woman is lower on the food chain.