Since then, many more female cardiologists have been educated. By 2005, over 25% of physicians and around 50% of medical school students were women. In Switzerland in 2018, 26 of 207 (13%) and 80 of 308 (26%) staff cardiologists were females. However, this is an overestimation due to part time work by some. From 2012 to 2017, the specialist title of cardiologist was obtained by 87 women and 171 men (34% females versus 66% males). In spring 2018, there were 686 regular SSC members, 122 (18%) of them were women. Increasingly, female cardiologists become more visible and competitive, although in 2018, there were only 2 women among 16 physicians on the SSC Board. This is still a striking underrepresentation of women. In a recent article about the future of cardiology, gender issues are not mentioned at all, showing that it is still a minor concern to most [
2]. Thus, as a reaction to the present situation in Switzerland, the “Women in Cardiology” (WIC) group was formed by Katja Grünenfelder, Hildegard Tanner, Marianne Zimmerli Vögtlin, and Anna Lam on the 27
th of March 2017. Later, the group received additional support from Kerstin Wustmann, Fabienne Schwitz and Christine Attenhofer Jost (
figure 2). Currently, there are 94 WIC members in Switzerland, with the hope of many more women joining in the next years. The WIC group in Switzerland (
www.ig-wic.ch) aims to have a better representation of women at meetings, in science, in the SSC to help young female cardiologists with mentoring and moral support. They plan also to join their efforts with peers abroad.