Men continue to dominate Orthopedics, but women are slowly catching up

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...