The number of women in medicine has increased dramatically in the last few decades, and
women now represent half of all incoming medical students. Yet residency training still …

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 …

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

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 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 …

For well over a century, women have sought acceptance in the medical profession. The first
breakthrough in this effort, in the late nineteenth century, resulted in a" golden age": women …

The role of women in our society has been changing rapidly over the past two or three
decades. Nowhere is this trend more striking than in medicine. Women constitute over 40 …

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 …

T he distribution of women physicians among specialties remains uneven (Table 1). For
example, 60% of the residents in pediatrics versus 17% in surgery are women. Growth in the …