Orthopedics Remains Male Dominated Specialty (Orthopedics This Week)
Men dominate orthopedic surgery but women are catching up—sort of. Orthopedics has the lowest percentage of women in a surgical specialty—with women making up only 4.3% of board-certified orthopedic surgeons, according to Mary I. O’Connor, M.D., Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
In a piece in the August 3 Huffington Post, O’Connor notes that women used to avoid orthopedics under the impression that orthopedic surgeons required a great deal of physical strength to maneu...