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The proportion of female applicants to men has risen steadily for years. For the 1993-94 entering class, women made up 41.9 percent of the more than 42,800 applicants, up from 34 percent of the more than 35,100 applicants a decade earlier. In 1963, they were 8.1 percent of the almost 17,700 applicants.

Yen Truong, 23, of San Francisco, is a first-year student at Tufts University School of Medicine where 52 percent of the 8,200 applicants for next year's class were women.

Truong is pursuing joint medical and public health degrees because, she said, she loves both science and community service.

"Medicine has come to accept that it's not just science, it's more of an occupation of caring," she said. "I think that's a positive change, in that women are better served that way, and patients are better served if there are more women doctors."

More Women Hold Fortune 500 Co. Spots

Thu Dec 4, 2003

By Anusha Shrivastava, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - The number of women holding board seats in Fortune 500 companies is rising slowly but steadily, according to a study released Thursday by New York-based research firm Catalyst.

Women held 13.6 percent of corporate director seats in 2003, up from 12.4 percent in 2001 and 9.5 percent in 1995, the study said.