The 1970s was a decade of remarkable growth for women in academic medicine. The
percentage of women entering medical school, the number of women on medical-school …

Women now make up 37 percent of medical school applicants, 34 percent of medical
students, 28 percent of residents, and 19 percent of full-time medical school faculty …

Women now constitute 43% of US medical students, 37% of residents, and 27% of full-time
medical school faculty. Less than 11% of women faculty are full professors, however …

We determined the representation of women physicians on US medical school faculties by
enumeration from school catalogues according to professorial rank, title series, and …

1971–72 were overshadowed by the large upswing reported for 1972–73 when women
represented 128 percent of all medical students (Table 1) and 168 percent of the 1972 fall …

Purpose This article describes the current position of women in the field of medicine.
Procedures Material was gathered using a MEDLINE search for recent articles on women's …

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 …

In sharp contrast to the increase in pro-portions of women physicians in other countries, the
percentage of women in the United States who apply to medical schools has changed …

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 …

THE United States has one of the lowest percentages of women entering medicine of any of
the countries on which data were collected in a recent survey. There is a world-wide …