Women comprise more than one third of the active physician workforce, an estimated 46% of
all physicians-in-training, and more than half of all medical students in the United States …

Background: Women have been entering academic medicine in numbers at least equal to
their male colleagues for several decades. Most studies have found that women do not …

Background: Women constitute an increasing proportion of physicians in the United States.
Historically, inequities have existed between male and female physicians in professional …

Women represent approximately half of students entering medical schools and more than
half of those entering PhD programs. When advancing through the academic and …

Abstract In 2008, the National Institutes of Health funded 14 R01 grants to study causal
factors that promote and support women's biomedical careers. The Research Partnership on …

• Gender inequity persists in medicine and medical academia in Canada, particularly in
leadership.• Greater gender equity has been shown to be better for health policy-making …

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 …

In this perspective piece, we describe a multifactorial phenomenon whereby academic
women physicians become invisible in the mid-career stage. Barriers, both small and large …

The gender composition of physician specialties varies dramatically with some becoming
increasingly female predominant while others remain overwhelmingly male. In their analysis …

Women now make up half of incoming US medical students. 1 While much progress has
been made toward equalizing levels of entry into the field of medicine for men and women …