Gender bias and discrimination have profound and far-reaching effects on the health care
workforce, delivery of patient care, and advancement of science and are antithetical to the
principles of professionalism. In the quest for gender equity, medicine, with its abundance of
highly educated and qualified women, should be leading the way. The sheer number of
women who comprise the majority of pediatricians in the United States suggests this
specialty has a unique opportunity to stand out as progressively equitable. Indeed, there has …