Women have entered medical school in nearly equal numbers to men for the last 20 years, with women under the age of 35 accounting for 60 percent of physicians in this country. These numbers sound promising, but the numbers do not tell the whole story.
Author: Lisa Ravindra, MD, FACP
Lisa Ravindra is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and primary care physician at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is also a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.