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 …

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 …

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

While the number of women entering US medical schools has risen substantially in the past
25 years, the number of women in leadership positions in academic medicine is …

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

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) was
established in 1990. With the completion of the office's 30th anniversary year, we look back …

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 …

Since the early 1970s, the numbers of women entering medical school and, subsequently,
academic medicine have increased substantially. However, women faculty have not …

Progress has been made in diminishing barriers experienced by women in science in recent
years, however obstacles still remain. One of the key elements of the Texas Tech University …

Background: The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)
program is a mentored institutional research career development program developed to …