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

Despite an increase in percentage of women entering the surgical field, women tend to favor
certain surgical subspecialties. The purpose of this study was to investigate how surgeons …

Women have played an active role as physicians and surgeons from earliest history. In the
United States, medical education for women began in 1847 and flourished as medical …

Objective: To celebrate the increasing representation of women as leaders in American
surgery and provide suggestions for increasing diversity in leadership. Background: Women …

Do women make safer surgeons? | The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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To the Editor: In this edition of Surgery, Keller et al 1 present a narrative summary of
interviews conducted with selected senior women leaders in colorectal disease and surgery …

Surgical specialties have a recruitment problem. A magnification of the problem is often
seen in the" feminization" of medicine but the causes are multifactorial. Female physicians of …

Dr Miranda Stewart is considered the first female surgeon in Britain and Canada; she spent
more than 40 years impersonating a man to practice medicine. Dr Stewart practiced as the …

Focuses on the imbalance of women and men in the medical profession of Great Britain.
Reasons of the imbalance; Difference of career achievements between women doctors and …

I read the recently published survey from Parini and colleagues 1 addressing gender-related
barriers for Italian women surgeons. Despite being the first study of this kind in Italy, it …