Ann Arbor, Mich.—Last November, women surgeons from across the United States and from all stages of surgical careers met in Michigan to discuss the gender gap in surgery and find ways to close it.
The year 2017 was an important one for women in surgery: the #ilooklikesurgeon movement on Twitter and the subsequent cover of The New Yorker (April 3 issue) made the sight of a woman in surgical scrubs a familiar one; an unprecedented 22 women became chairs of surgery in the