The New Dental Practice

Flexibility and the New Work/Life Balance

From Northwest Dentistry

by Judy Goldetsky

Introduction

Sometime within the past five years, the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry found itself in good company. Like the Law School, School of Pharmacy, Veterinary School, and Medical School, the School of Dentistry had an incoming class comprised of more than fifty percent women. William E. Stein, D.D.S., Executive Editor of Northwest Dentistry, wrote in the November-December 2009 issue of this journal that, “Now the classes are evenly divided male and female as it should be.”
Minnesota exceeds the national average of women in professional programs as reported by the Office of Institutional Research at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (please see graph).  Read more…