Fast facts...

• For the 1988 Sport Psychology Conference, Fortune 500 companies were asked to identify the top female executive in their firm. When asked if they had participated in organized sports as young women, 86 percent responded affirmatively.

• It has been 140 years since Mary Thomas became the first woman admitted to what was then the Indiana Medical College.

• The Center of Excellence in Women's Health at the IU School of Medicine has raised $70,000 from non-government sources to conduct behavioral science research and funding to improve breast cancer screening among indigent women. The center has also developed a leadership plan to increase the number of women on the medical school faculty; 15 percent of tenured faculty are female.

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