Background Women are underrepresented in healthcare leadership, yet evidence on
impactful organisational strategies, practices and policies that advance women's careers are …

Despite the dramatically increased entry of women into general surgery and surgical
subspecialties, traditionally male-dominated fields, there remains a gross under …

Mentoring programmes have been implemented as a specific career-advancement tool in
the training and further education of various groups in the medical profession. The main …

Purpose The influx of women into academic medicine has not been accompanied by
equality for male and female faculty. Women earn less than men in comparable positions …

Preface The leadership of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) has been asked by the Board of
Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) to compose a white …

Background: Although women make up nearly half of medical school classes in the United
States, just over 20% of residents in surgery are women (excluding obstetrics/gynecology) …

National Institutes of Health (NIH), rang the first alarm about physician-scientists as an
''endangered species.''1 Indeed, trends since then seem to be increasingly discouraging …

Over the last 40 years, the proportion of women in dentistry has been rising steadily, raising
questions about the effects of this feminization on the profession. A review of the literature …

Background Almost one half of currently practicing physicians in Europe are women.
Despite advances in access to training positions and the entry of women into neurosurgery …

Purpose Over the past 30 years, the number and type of academic faculty tracks have
increased, and researchers have found differences in promotion rates between track types …