Women now sit in Congress, occupy the mayor's office of several U.S. communities, deliver the news on television and even work as professional furniture movers. But women remain a rarity in a profession for which they are eminently qualified—medicine. Only 21,000, or 7%, of the country's 300,000 doctors are female. Though the U.S. needs at least 50,000 new doctors to meet current needs, little has been done until recently to attract more women into medicine.
A great deal has been done, however, to discourage distaff doctors. The obstacles that stand in the way of any woman who wants to train in medicine...
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