The profession of medicine is becoming feminized: The number of women enrolled in
medical school and residency programs has increased dramatically over the past several …

OVER THE PAST CENTURY, WOMEN HAVE MOVED from near exclusion from medical
schools to-ward forming the majority of new graduates in medicine, a trend referred to as …

Despite the fact that women now comprise half of the medical student and resident
populations, women remain underrepresented in prominent leadership positions in …

Women comprise more than one third of the active physician workforce, an estimated 46% of
all physicians-in-training, and more than half of all medical students in the United States …

The gender composition of physician specialties varies dramatically with some becoming
increasingly female predominant while others remain overwhelmingly male. In their analysis …

Women in medicine have made progress since Elizabeth Blackwell: the first women to
receive her medical degree in the United States in 1849. Yet although women currently …

The number of women in medicine is increasing. There is evidence that women practice in
different ways than men; are interested in different aspects of medicine; work fewer hours; …

In 1960, only about 5 percent of medical students in the United States were women; today,
the numbers of women and men in medical school are approximately equal. This apparent …

© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors riphery of a group; few of us want to
be the one to complain (which calls attention to this disadvantage) or to be seen as …

Background In 2000, a landmark study showed that women who graduated from US medical
schools from 1979 through 1997 were less likely than their male counterparts to be …