Her class consisted of twelve women and sixty men and she noticed that male and female students were treated much differently.
Several months later, after promises of changes in university procedures and policies on sexism, she rescinded her resignation in an effort to ensure the changes might actually be implemented.
[1] Her book Walking Out on the Boys spotlit misogyny at one of the nation's leading universities and led to changes in programming throughout the country.
This book offered some behind-the-scenes views of the medical school located at Stanford including certain labs and research.
Her resignation and the release of this book not only created some public support towards her, but also towards other instances of sexism across the country that not only occur in medical schools of universities but throughout hospitals and research environments as well.