Recently, Modern Healthcare published a list of the 50 most influential physician leaders of
the past year. 1 It included just 7 women (14%), a vivid demonstration of the disparities that …

We applaud Lukela et al. for contributing their institutional experience to the rapidly growing
literature that quantifies the numerous and insidious ways that gender inequity manifests in …

For the first time in history, women constitute more than half–50.7% to be exact–of the United
States medical student population. 1, 2, 3 Despite strides made towards gender equality in …

Despite the fact that women now comprise half of the medical student and resident
populations, women remain underrepresented in prominent leadership positions in …

Background: Women account for 16% of deans of American medical schools. To investigate
this gender gap, female deans were interviewed about the barriers facing women advancing …

This article reviews some of our research on how gender stereotypes and their
accompanying assumptions and expectations can influence the careers of male and female …

IN 2009, THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN Medical Colleges reported that 48 percent of
the individuals accepted into medical school were women.(1) Although barriers to medical …

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 …

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 …

Last year, for the first time ever, the number of women applying to medical school exceeded
the number of men. And as Cooper pointed out in a recent article in this journal, that is only …