Over the past 25 years, the number of women graduating from medical schools in the United
States and Canada has increased dramatically to the point where roughly equal numbers of …

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 …

Women currently represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant
professors at academic institutions. Despite the large pool of women in the academic …

More than a decade ago, women achieved parity with men in the number of matriculants to
medical school, nearly one-third of the faculty of medical schools were women, and there …

Despite the fact that women now comprise half of the medical student and resident
populations, women remain underrepresented in prominent leadership positions in …

In 1960, only about 5 percent of medical students in the United States were women; today,
the numbers of women and men in medical school are approximately equal. This apparent …

Objective Greater numbers of women in medicine have not resulted in more women
achieving senior positions. Programs supporting the recruitment, promotion, and retention of …

Background: Concurrent with the evolving role of the department chair in academic
medicine is the entry of women physicians into chair positions. Because implicit biases that …

Since the early 1970s, the numbers of women entering medical school and, subsequently,
academic medicine have increased substantially. However, women faculty have not …

Background: Women have entered academic medicine in significant numbers for 4 decades
and now comprise 20% of full-time faculty. Despite this, women have not reached senior …