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 …

Introduction: The gender gap in professorship and leadership roles persists in academic
medicine, whereas reasons for these disparities remain unclear. Materials and Methods …

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 …

Despite increases in the percentages of women medical school graduates and faculty over
the past decade, women physicians and scientists remain underrepresented in academic …

Importance Women in academic medicine continue to face systemic obstacles on their paths
to leadership. In addition to improving recruitment and advancement opportunities …

Introduction The underrepresentation of women among senior faculty members in medical
education is a longstanding problem. The purpose of this international qualitative …

Background: Women represent a persistently low proportion of faculty in senior and
leadership roles in medical schools, despite an adequate pipeline. Objectives: This article …

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

Purpose One challenge academic health centers face is to advance female faculty to
leadership positions and retain them there in numbers equal to men, especially given the …