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Medicine is not at all female dominated, just certain categories in it like nursing and pharma sales reps. If you move up the ladder of money and influence, you will find that the majority of doctors, administrators, CEOs etc. are very much male.

Breaking down just doctors, the profession is 2/3 male, and within it women lean towards specialties like gynecology, pediatrics and palliative medicine while the most prestigious ones like various kinds of surgery and radiology are male dominated.

Not as to doctors: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data...

Nursing (which is a huge industry of course) is the notable exception within medicine. But it’s still subordinate.

Working physicians is a trailing indicator. The leading indicator is MD students which have been majority women for years now.

But what proportions will actually work as doctors?

I assume most of them have to, for at least some years, to pay off their medical school loans.

1. these days 2. nursing may be female-dominated, but the gender ratio of doctors (for whom the industry is significantly more profitable) is still heavily skewed towards men, is it not?

Not in my experience, the more senior roles are still skewed towards men.