Figure 1.

Total enrolment in the career of medicine by sex, 1990–2001. Throughout the period, the proportional participation of women maintained a constant growth. According to the annual statistical book from ANUIES, the percentage of women enrolled in medicine jumped from 43.9% in 1990 to 50.4% in 2001. It 1999 the number of women enrolled outnumbered men for the first time, by 1038.