Figure 1. Gender difference of acceptance rate in the entrance examination of medical school of Japan. Female acceptance rate was increased in 2019 and 2020 compared with those in 2013-2018.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 2. The frequency of female students in the first year of medical school of Japan. The rate was apparently increased in 2021 and became over 40%.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 3. The frequencies of female entrance in US medical school. Both female application and entrance rate became over 50% since 2018.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 4. Gender difference in passing frequencies of the national examination for medical practitioner of Japan. Females always have higher frequency than male.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 5. Number of publications with keywords “women physician” by PubMed. These were dramatically increased in these decades.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 6. Frequent occupation of female physicians. The rate in Japan is still lower than that in other countries.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 7. Schematic diagram of obstacles against the COVID-19 crisis for women physicians to academic medicine. Women-specific processes to academic medicine will be influenced by the COVID-19 crisis.

From: Women Physicians in Academic Medicine of Japan

Figure 8. Schematic diagram of support suggestions for women physicians in academic medicine. The number in parenthesis shows the text of “5. Strategy for women physician in academia.”

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