BACKGROUND: The National Academies reported in Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling
the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (2006) that “women are very …

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

Women experience substantial, gender-specific barriers that can impede their advancement
in research careers. These include unconscious biases that negatively influence the …

Objective: Women are under-represented in academia. Causative factors include
challenges of career–family integration. We evaluated factors reflecting institutional culture …

The high attrition rate of female physicians pursuing an academic medicine research career
has not been examined in the context of career development theory. We explored how …

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 Background: In the United States, women have attained near gender equity at the
entry stages in academic medicine; however, progress has been much slower at senior …

Women in academic medicine are approaching parity without power. Although the number
of women choosing careers in medicine has grown substantially over the last 35 years, there …

Purpose To assess attitudes of female faculty about career progress, resources for career
development, and values related to academic success and recognition. Method In 1997, the …

Women in medicine face barriers that hinder progress toward top leadership roles, and the
industry remains plagued by the grand challenge of gender inequality. The purpose of this …