Public Health Issue - Harvard School of Dental Medicine

public health focusGender of OHPE Alumni by Decade of Graduation (n=51)2018181816141415The graph at right not only demonstrates thedemographic shift between male and femalealumni who participated in the survey, but alsoshows a dramatic increase in the number ofalumni from the 1970s to the 1990s, with thenumber of male alumni outnumbering females.While there has not been a significant change inthe number of alumni from the 1990s to 2000s, thenumber of female alumni greatly surpassed that ofmales in the survey. In the 2000s, one individualdid not specify gender.Number of Alumni1210864201 10951970s 1980s 1990s 2000sDecade of Graduation1172MaleFemaleTotalPercentage of Male and Female OHPE Alumni by Decade of Graduation100%90%80%100%88.24%The graph at right shows a dramatic shift in thenumber of male and female department alumniover the decades. Among survey participants,only one person, a male, graduated in 1979. Inthe 1980s and 1990s, the percentage of femalealumni increased gradually (35.71 percent to38.89 percent), and seemed to converge toward50 percent. From 2000 to 2009, however,the percentage of female alumni more thandoubled, as 88.24 percent of the trainees werefemale and only 11.76 percent were male.Percentage of Alumni70%60%50%40%30%20%10%0%64.29%61.11%35.71%38.89%0.00% 11.76%1970s 1980s 1990s 2000sDecade of GraduationMaleFemaleharvard dental bulletin • winter 2012–1319