article_snippet: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2011, surgeons were predominately male, with the vast majority (94 per cent) of orthopaedic surgeons, and around nine in ten vascular (89 per cent) and cardiothoracic (88 per cent) surgeons being men.
article_snippet: Only 25 per cent of surgery trainees in Australia are women.
article_snippet: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2011, surgery is still a male dominated profession .