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 …

In controlled studies, both men and women preferentially select men over women for
leadership positions, even when credentials are identical and despite field studies …

Women currently represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant
professors at academic institutions. Despite the large pool of women in the academic …

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

WMJ• 2003• Volume 102, No. 3 18 ical schools, and the lower stature given to clinical
positions compared to research faculty within an academic environment. 17 While a clinical …

The size of the physician–scientist workforce has declined for the past 3 decades, which
raises significant concerns for the future of biomedical research. There is also a …

Objective: To determine whether there were gender differences in likelihood of receiving a
first National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 award among 5445 instructors and assistant …

One of the first National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap initiatives to be launched was
the Director's Pioneer Award. This award was established to" identify and fund investigators …

Historically, women in the United States were less likely to succeed in academic medical
careers than men. 1 4 Compared with men, women are still underrepresented in leadership …

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 …