Background: Although women receive nearly half of all doctoral degrees and show a high
interest in academic careers, the pipeline is leaky. The challenge of balancing life course …

Purpose: There exists a growing consensus that career flexibility is critical to recruiting and
retaining talented faculty, especially women faculty. This study was designed to determine …

The challenges of balancing a career and family life disproportionately affect women in
academic health sciences and medicine, contributing to their slower career advancement …

Objective: Women are under-represented in academia. Causative factors include
challenges of career–family integration. We evaluated factors reflecting institutional culture …

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

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 Academic medical and biomedical professionals need workplace flexibility to
manage the demands of work and family roles and meet their commitments to both, but often …

Background In response to the landmark report “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the
Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,” the NIH Office of Research on …

Background: Given the persistent disparity in the advancement of women compared with
men faculty in academic medicine, it is critical to develop effective interventions to enhance …

Purpose: Women lag behind men in several key academic indicators, such as advancement,
retention, and securing leadership positions. Although reasons for these disparities are …