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Much has been written recently on gender disparities in medicine and the negative outcomes that result for women. The impetus for examining these disparities is manifold. While we intuitively know that achieving gender equity is simply the right thing to do, there are serious stakes not only for women but also for medicine as a field and for the communities we serve that underlie the decisive need to actualize gender equity. Diversity in human capital brings diversity in thought, which leads to innovation, stronger teams, and better outcomes for patients. But, as it stands in 2019, women are still underrepresented in areas like leadership positions, journal authorship, and speaker invitations and are undercompensated compared with their male peers, leaving them more financially disadvantaged in retirement.

We look at 5 articles published in 2018 and 2019 in JAMA Network Open1-5 (Box) that examine disparities in …