Objective.—To assess possible explanations for the finding that the percentage of women
medical school faculty members holding associate or full professor rank remains well below …

Background In 2000, a landmark study showed that women who graduated from US medical
schools from 1979 through 1997 were less likely than their male counterparts to be …

Purpose Prior studies have found that women in academic medicine do not advance or
remain in their careers in parity with men. The authors examined a cohort of faculty from the …

Background I conducted a study to determine whether women who graduate from medical
schools are more or less likely than their male counterparts to pursue full-time careers in …

Objective.—To determine the gender-based career obstacles for women in an academic
department of medicine and to report the interventions to correct such obstacles (resulting …

Background: Women have been entering academic medicine in numbers at least equal to
their male colleagues for several decades. Most studies have found that women do not …

Objective: To explore the status and academic productivity of women compared with men in
academic internal medicine. Design: Mail survey done in 1986. Setting: A total of 107 major …

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 …

Background Although the numbers of women in training and in entry-level academic
positions in medicine have increased substantially in recent years, the proportion of women …

Purpose Because those selected for leadership in academic medicine often have a record of
academic productivity, publication disparities may help explain the gender imbalance in …