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 …

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 …

Abstract In this Invited Commentary, the author applies a historical lens to explore a
fundamental paradox in US medical education: the fact that long after women gained parity …

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 …

Women currently represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant
professors at academic institutions. Despite the large pool of women in the academic …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …