Purpose: Women comprise almost one-third of academic medicine faculty 60 years of age
and older. Gender disparities have been documented across many measures in medicine …

Purpose. The percentage of women faculty at the professor level has remained at
approximately 11%. The medical community could benefit from knowing what is required to …

Purpose Despite recent efforts to understand the complex process of physician career
development, the medical education community has a poor understanding of why, how, and …

In academic medicine, as in many employment settings, women frequently earn less than
men and hold fewer senior positions [1–5]. While the magnitude of this disparity varies …

The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of female faculty in family therapy
and family studies graduate programs. Specifically, we were interested in how female faculty …

Women students and employees are underrepresented in scientific contexts. Similarly,
though the number of women medical students is quickly reaching parity with men, women …

Context There is attrition of women across professorial ranks in academic pathology.
Women are underrepresented as leaders; 15.4% of academic pathology departments are …

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 …

Background I conducted a study to determine whether women who graduate from medical
schools are more or less likely than their male counterparts to pursue full-time careers in …

Purpose This chapter explores whether issues and policies for senior academic women
scientists are similar or different from those of their junior counterparts. Methodology Both …