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

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 …

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

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 …

Background: Academic medicine has initiated changes in policy, practice, and programs
over the past several decades to address persistent gender disparity and other issues …

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 …

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 …

Purpose To assess whether the proportion of women faculty, especially at the full professor
rank, increased from 2004 to 2010 at Stanford University School of Medicine after a …

Purpose A scarcity of women in leadership positions in academic medicine has persisted
despite their increasing numbers in medical training. To understand the barriers confronting …

Importance Gender disparities in career advancement in academic medicine have persisted
despite gender parity in medical school matriculation. Although numerous explanations for …