"You definitely feel that you’re a little bit on your own. And that’s not always a bad thing. I think that if you’re challenged, it helps you to grow to become stronger."
Dr. Jessica Shellock
Spinal Surgeon
Texas Back Institute
...on being a woman in a male-dominated field, via D CEO Healthcare.
Recent reports suggest women make up less than a quarter of surgeons in ten different specialties with only 5.3 percent of orthopedic surgeons being women.
"I just want to be able to think that if somebody truly has a passion for something, that it doesn’t matter what your gender is—or anything other than you just kind of going for your dreams, right?" Shellock told D CEO.
A recent study from SmartAsset ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth metro eighth on a list of cities where women break the glass ceiling.
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