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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

While women have been well represented in medical school and biomedical doctoral
degree programs, they do not comprise half of academic medicine faculty positions …

Background I conducted a study to determine whether women who graduate from medical
schools are more or less likely than their male counterparts to pursue full-time careers in …

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 …

THE FIRST known woman medical graduate in the United States, Elizabeth Blackwell,
surmounted numerous difficulties and graduated from Geneva Medical College, New York …

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 …

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 …