In this perspective piece, we describe a multifactorial phenomenon whereby academic
women physicians become invisible in the mid-career stage. Barriers, both small and large …

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 …

Background: Women represent a persistently low proportion of faculty in senior and
leadership roles in medical schools, despite an adequate pipeline. Objectives: This article …

Women represent approximately half of students entering medical schools and more than
half of those entering PhD programs. When advancing through the academic and …

Women comprise more than one third of the active physician workforce, an estimated 46% of
all physicians-in-training, and more than half of all medical students in the United States …

Purpose The number of women in academic medicine has steadily increased, although
gender parity still does not exist and women leave academics at somewhat higher rates than …

The term “glass ceiling” refers to women's lack of advancement into leadership positions
despite no visible barriers. The term has been applied to academic medicine for over a …

Background: Women have entered academic medicine in significant numbers for 4 decades
and now comprise 20% of full-time faculty. Despite this, women have not reached senior …

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 …

Objective Greater numbers of women in medicine have not resulted in more women
achieving senior positions. Programs supporting the recruitment, promotion, and retention of …