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 …

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

Women represent approximately half of students entering medical schools and more than
half of those entering PhD programs. When advancing through the academic and …

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: The percentage of women graduating from US medical schools has increased
dramatically over the past 30 years, but the distribution of women and men across faculty …

Despite extensive work for decades to improve gender equity in academic medicine, women
continue to lag behind men in the number of tenure and leadership positions. This status …

Abstract In 2008, the National Institutes of Health funded 14 R01 grants to study causal
factors that promote and support women's biomedical careers. The Research Partnership on …

Purpose: To evaluate the experience of gender discrimination among a limited sample of
women in academic medicine, specifically, the role of discrimination in hindering careers …

Women are under-represented in academic medicine. We reviewed the empirical evidence
focusing on the reasons for women's choice or rejection of careers in academic 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 …