Gender Issues

Women Start Outnumbering Men At Top Medical Schools

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 12th, 1995

For the first time in the Yale School of Medicine's 182-year history, women outnumber men among first-year students, making up 56 percent of the class that entered in 1994. And Yale is not alone.

Eighteen of the United States' 126 medical schools reported a majority of women in their first-year class this academic year, including Harvard in Boston, Massachusetts, and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland, two other top-ranked institutions where it was also a first. At both schools, women made up 53 percent of the first-year class.

Medical school officials are hard-pressed to explain the shift. Yale's admissions director, Lynne Wootton, said the...

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