Traditionally, medicine as a whole has been a male dominated field. However, the field of OB/GYN has become an outlier. Typically, patients prefer their doctors to be of the same gender. Historically, OB/GYNs have been male, but as women sought higher education there has been a shift. As of today about 35% of all doctors are female, this is a significant increase from 1970 where only about 10% of doctors were female (2). Currently, 85% of OB/GYN doctors are female (3). In contrast to the most male dominated field of radiology which is only 73% male (3). There are a few reasons for this shift. First, more women have gone to medical school as a whole, so by playing the statistics game the sample size increased and so did the specific group.
