EXCLUSIVE: 30 years ago, Pride Of Britain winner Dame Averil Mansfield became the UK’s first female professor of surgery. Here she shares her inspiring and boundary-pushing career
Dame Averil Mansfield, who was appointed the UK’s first female professor of surgery 30 years ago, is still sending a defiant message as she receives the Pride Of Britain Lifetime Achievement award.
“There is still a long way to go,” Averil tells us, highlighting the need for support for women when it comes to juggling the demands of a career in medicine with family life. “I came from a working-class background where no one in the family had been to university. By the time I did my O levels, my mother accepted the fact that I was going to do this. She was really influential because she bought the syllabus for what would now be the A level.
When she announced to a senior surgeon that she planned to marry her architect boyfriend in 1960, he replied, “What a pity. You had such a promising career.”
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