Background: Ensuring the strength of the physician workforce is essential to optimizing
patient care. Challenges that undermine the profession include inequities in advancement …

Importance In peer-reviewed medical journals, authoring an invited commentary on an
original article is a recognition of expertise. It has been documented that women author …

Methods| In this cross-sectional study, we identified 1 major physician-focused medical
society for each of the 43 specialty groupings listed in the 2016 Physician Specialty Data …

Gender bias and discrimination have profound and far-reaching effects on the health care
workforce, delivery of patient care, and advancement of science and are antithetical to the …

Despite the fact that the percentages of women among physicians and neurologists have
been rising, gender-related disparities in numerous metrics persist, notably in …

IN 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school in the
United States; however, leaders at her alma mater declared this experiment in educating a …

Much has been written recently on gender disparities in medicine and the negative
outcomes that result for women. The impetus for examining these disparities is manifold …

I read with interest what Editors at The Lancet are doing about gender and diversity. 1
Gender inequities are at odds with the ethics to which we as a health-care community …

Purpose Females remain under-represented in academic anesthesiology. Our objectives
were to investigate gender differences over time in the first and last authors of published …

Background: To increase awareness, search for solutions, and drive change, disparity-
related research needs to be strategically disseminated. This study aimed to quantify …