Since the 1970s the percentage of women entering medicine has steadily increased, and currently 51% of matriculating medical students are female. The number of females entering surgical specialties has also steadily increased. While the many surgical subspecialties including neurosurgery, plastic surgery, urology, and others have seen continued growth of female surgeons, orthopaedics unfortunately has not seen the same growth.1,2,3 Orthopaedics has only seen a 2-3% increase since 1990.
