In controlled studies, both men and women preferentially select men over women for
leadership positions, even when credentials are identical and despite field studies …

Background: Academic centers' and professional societies' top leadership representation
and professional societies' award recipients remain disparate by gender in many fields. Little …

A full century after the passing of the 19th amendment, the composition of today's medical
school classes reflects the gender balance of the US population. Of the country's 92,733 …

Despite extensive work for decades to improve gender equity in academic medicine, women
continue to lag behind men in the number of tenure and leadership positions. This status …

Purpose Despite dramatic increases in female learners and junior faculty, a significant gap
remains in female leadership in academic medicine. To assess challenges and obstacles …

BACKGROUND: The National Academies reported in Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling
the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (2006) that “women are very …

Background: Women in academic medicine are not attaining parity with men in several
domains. This issue is not only one of fairness; some funding agencies are requesting data …

Reaching gender parity in medical school enrollment this year should have come as no
surprise—women have represented more than 40% of the US medical student body since …

While the number of women entering US medical schools has risen substantially in the past
25 years, the number of women in leadership positions in academic medicine is …

Purpose A scarcity of women in leadership positions in academic medicine has persisted
despite their increasing numbers in medical training. To understand the barriers confronting …