Fig. 1

Proportion of female graduating medical doctors every 5 years since 1940 (A) and yearly since 1990 (B), demonstrating convergence in 1996. (C) Proportion of female applicants to Canadian MD programs. Note MD applicant gender was not reported by some Ontario universities beginning in 2014. (D) Proportion female first year MD program students. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) indicate relative likelihood of female vs. male applicants matriculating, pooled by decade