Background: There have been recent increases in the number of female orthopaedists. The
purpose of this study was to profile women in academic orthopaedic surgery and their …

Objective Pediatrics and hand surgery have historically been the orthopaedic subspecialties
with the highest female representations. We sought to identify the gender distribution of …

Background: American medical schools have gradually achieved balance in the sex of
medical graduates over the past 4 decades. However, orthopaedic surgery has remained …

Background Although women account for approximately half of the medical students in the
United States, they represent only 13% of orthopaedic surgery residents and 4% of …

Background: Women are underrepresented as applicants to and trainees of orthopaedic
surgery residencies. Factors that attract women to or deter them from orthopaedic surgery …

The movement toward official academic training for medical professionals in the 12th and
13th centuries led to the exclusion of women from professional health care because they …

Background: Although women represented 58% of undergraduate students and 48% of
medical students in the US in the 2008-2009 academic year, only 13% of orthopaedic …

Methods: Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2005 to 2014 were
used to calculate the number of medical school graduates, the number of orthopaedic …

Although there have been substantial improvements toward achieving gender parity in
academic medicine over the past decades, women are not represented equally in academic …

Background: The purpose of this study was to perform a cross-sectional analysis on the
gender composition of practicing academic orthopaedic surgeons using three databases …