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Being a mother and a physician has never been a walk in the “balanced life” park. It’s more like an all-out sprint. And today – despite the fact that women make up a greater-than-ever portion of the overall physician category – they run it while carrying weight their male counterparts don’t.

For female physicians, 2019 marked a monumental achievement. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), that was the first year in which the majority of U.S. medical school students (50.5%) were women. This tracks with years of a steady rise in women as a percentage of the physician workforce, which increased from 28.3% in 2007 to 36.3% in 2019.