THE PROBLEMS that women physicians encounter with professional socialization, peer
acceptance, and a career structure that does not accommodate interruptions exact an …

THE ADMISSION gates are ajar for women now applying to medical school. In 1979-1980,
28% of all first-year medical students were women, a record-breaking number. To the …

yielded mixed results. Although most female physicians indicate that they are generally
satisfied with their careers, certain factors that are unique to or that differentially affect female …

During the past 20 years there has been a striking demo-graphic shift in American medicine.
After a half cen-tury of constituting 5% of the physician population, women will soon make up …

To determine attitudes toward women physicians within medical academia, we administered
a survey to a probability sample of male and female senior medical students, faculty, and top …

Background: Women have been entering academic medicine in numbers at least equal to
their male colleagues for several decades. Most studies have found that women do not …

During the 1970s, more and more women chose medicine as a profession. In 1970-1971,
only 9.2 percent of all US medical graduates were women. Ten years later, the percentage …

THE FIRST known woman medical graduate in the United States, Elizabeth Blackwell,
surmounted numerous difficulties and graduated from Geneva Medical College, New York …

Differences in income between male and female academic physicians are well known, but
differences for community physicians and career differences in income have not been …

Data obtained from random samples of 87 women and 95 men physicians in the Detroit
metropolitan area indicate that, at the time of survey, 84% of the women and 96% of the men …