Background Women physicians continue to comprise the minority of leadership roles in
Academic Family Medicine (AFM) faculty across North American medical schools. Our study …

Objective: To compare gender compositions in the leadership of the top 25 medical schools
in North America with the leadership of their affiliated university senior leadership and other …

While a significant portion of women within academic science are employed within medical
schools, women faculty in these academic medical centers are disproportionately …

In this issue of the Journal of Women's Health, Larson et al. 1 conducted an in-depth study of
the gender and rank distribution of dean positions at allopathic medical schools in the …

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 …

Background: Women in academic medicine are not attaining parity with men in several
domains. This issue is not only one of fairness; some funding agencies are requesting data …

We applaud Lukela et al. for contributing their institutional experience to the rapidly growing
literature that quantifies the numerous and insidious ways that gender inequity manifests in …

For the first time in history, women constitute more than half–50.7% to be exact–of the United
States medical student population. 1, 2, 3 Despite strides made towards gender equality in …

Purpose Prior studies have found that women in academic medicine do not advance or
remain in their careers in parity with men. The authors examined a cohort of faculty from the …

Background: Women account for 16% of deans of American medical schools. To investigate
this gender gap, female deans were interviewed about the barriers facing women advancing …