This document consists of an interpretive overview and statistical data about women in medicine. Nine tables and three figures are presented. The tables are organized as follows: (1) Women Applicants, Enrollees and Graduates--Selected Years, 1949-50 through 1993-94; (2) Comparative Acceptance Data for Men and Women Applicants, 1974-75 through 1992-93; (3) Acceptance Rates of Applicants by Age and Sex, 1992-93 First-Year Class; (4) Distribution of Women Residents, 1991; (5) Women Faculty by Departments, 1975 and 1993; (6) Tenure Status of Full-Time Basic Science Faculty; (7) Tenure Status of Full-Time Clinical Faculty; (8) Women Chairs of Academic Departments; and (9) Women in Administrative Positions in Medical Schools. Three figures graphically display data on full-time medical school faculty by rank and gender; full-time medical school faculty by degree and gender; and ethnicity of female faculty in U.S. medical schools. (LL)