Women continue to face unique barriers in the biomedical workforce that affect their
advancement and retention in this field. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) formed the …

Although women have reached parity at the training level in the biological sciences and
medicine, they are still significantly underrepresented in the professoriate and in mid-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 …

Purpose This article describes the current position of women in the field of medicine.
Procedures Material was gathered using a MEDLINE search for recent articles on women's …

Women currently represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant
professors at academic institutions. Despite the large pool of women in the academic …

While women have been well represented in medical school and biomedical doctoral
degree programs, they do not comprise half of academic medicine faculty positions …

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 …

ABSTRACT In May 1992, the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research
dedicated its second annual Scientific Advisory Meeting to exploring the problems that …

Problem Although more female physicians and scientists are choosing careers in academic
medicine, women continue to be underrepresented as medical school faculty, particularly at …

Background: Academic medicine has initiated changes in policy, practice, and programs
over the past several decades to address persistent gender disparity and other issues …