Background: Women constitute an increasing proportion of physicians in the United States.
Historically, inequities have existed between male and female physicians in professional …

Background Despite major changes in health care, the prevalence and predictors of career
satisfaction have not recently been comprehensively studied in either women or men …

The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly
both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in …

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 …

In this issue of the Journal, Nonnemaker reports on a study of the likelihood that women will
pursue full-time careers in academic medicine and the likelihood of their advancement to the …

A full century after the passing of the 19th amendment, the composition of today's medical
school classes reflects the gender balance of the US population. Of the country's 92,733 …

Background: Women have entered academic medicine in significant numbers for 4 decades
and now comprise 20% of full-time faculty. Despite this, women have not reached senior …

More than a decade ago, women achieved parity with men in the number of matriculants to
medical school, nearly one-third of the faculty of medical schools were women, and there …

Over the past 25 years, the number of women graduating from medical schools in the United
States and Canada has increased dramatically to the point where roughly equal numbers of …

When Dr. Lesley Barron was in medical school, she was told it would only be a matter of
time before women occupied top leadership positions in medicine. There was reason for …