Rachael’s Reviews > Heroic Australian Women of War > Status Update

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, in line with the prevailing male opinion of the time, it was generally thought that women were too illogical and hysterical to serve as army medical officers or surgeons... 'If young women were allowed to undertake tertiary education the energy needed by the uterus would be diverted to the brain, rendering them infertile.'"