THE PROBLEM: TOO FEW FEMALE ROLE MODELS IN RADIOLOGYWomen are underrepresented in radiology [1]. A 2014 study found that the percentages of female practicing radiologists (23.5%), academic radiology faculty (26.1%), radiology residents (27.8%), and radiology applicants (28.1%) were all substantially below the percentage of women graduating from medical school in the United States (48.3%) [2]. Additionally, of the twenty largest residency training programs in the US, radiology ranked ninth for overall size but only seventeenth for female representation [2].As the medical field has become increasingly diverse, radiology has failed to keep pace.Over the last four decades, the percentage of female radiologists in the United States has held steady in the low to mid-20s [2,3,4,5]. Many studies have been conducted in recent years to better understand the forces behind the apparent gendering of certain medical specialties, a term which reflects the overwhelming predominance of women in some specialties such as pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology and men in others such as radiology and orthopedic surgery [6,7,8].Although these studies failed to reveal conclusive evidence as to the causes, they managed to uncover potential contributing factors, such as the presence of gender bias in certain specialties, cultural differences between the sexes, and the presence or lack of identifiable role models in different fields [6,7,8,9]. The forces that produce gender disparity in medical specialties are