In 2022, the medical specialization with the lowest percentage of women in Brazil was urology, with only 2.9 percent of women urologists. Orthopedics and traumatology followed, with about 7.4 percent of licensed specialists being women in the South American country. In comparison, dermatology was the medical specialization with the most women in Brazil that same year.
Medical specializations with the lowest percentage of women in Brazil in 2022
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