Women in many fields have described challenges during their doctoral work due to
pregnancy and parenting, but no research has explored these issues within social work …

Studies on gender in the academic workplace have found persistent disparity between men
and women in terms of salary, promotional opportunities, workload distributions, and other …

Background Although women at all career stages are more likely to leave academia than
men, early-career women are a particularly high-risk group. Research supports that women …

This study examines perceptions of post-doctoral women bench scientists working across
fourteen major US research universities, and how both individual and institutional …

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 …

Background The issue of gender disparity is particularly important in the domain of public
health where the tone of its leadership is pivotal in bringing about impactful change to …

Progress has been made in diminishing barriers experienced by women in science in recent
years, however obstacles still remain. One of the key elements of the Texas Tech University …

Purpose To explore factors that may be involved in the persistent paucity of women leaders
in US academic medicine and to provide baseline gender-related data for developing …

Advances in biomedical research require a robust physician scientist workforce. Despite
being equally successful at securing early career awards from the NIH as men, women MD …

Despite recent gains in admissions to medical school and most specialities, a glance at the
list of academic staff of most university departments of psychiatry makes it clear that women …