Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 20th Century, when medicine was still overwhelmingly male and European institutions largely closed their doors to women, a young doctor from colonial India's Bengal broke through one of its most formidable gates.

A former Michigan medical resident was awarded more than $10 million by a federal jury this week after alleging she was terminated from her obstetrics and gynecology residency for failing a licensing exam she was required to take during job-protected maternity leave.