She is among the barely 100 female neurosurgeons in the country, and one of just two in Westchester County.

Dr. Jain is the first female neurosurgeon from State of Rajasthan.

Dr. Frances K. Conley, a prominent female neurosurgeon, resigned from the Stanford Medical School, saying she was fed up with blatant sexism.

Tenured Professor Resigns Dr. Conley, one of the nation's first female neurosurgeons, resigned from her tenured professorship after 25 years at the school.

Rosseau is one of 300 female neurosurgeons in the United States, out of a total of more than 3,000 practicing neurosurgeons.

Her goal was to become the greatest female neurosurgeon in the country, a brain surgeon even males would turn to when all hope was lost.

Dr. Hilari Fleming is one of three female neurosurgeons in the West.

Dr. Kanaka is also sometimes noted to be the world's first female neurosurgeon.

It was also then that she was formally acknowledged as Asia's first female neurosurgeon.

Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu (25 April 1920 - 21 March 2008) was a Romanian neurosurgeon and is considered one of the first female neurosurgeons in the world.