In 1973, the year I started medical school, women constituted only a small percentage of all medical students. My own class at the University of Colorado reflected this trend. I realize, in hindsight, how unaware my male classmates and I were of the many barriers our female colleagues had overcome to be there—from unconscious bias to outright sexism—and how they continued to experience more of the same in medical school and residency training.

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