The numbers of women in medical school and in medical training have increased
dramatically and are near 50% overall, but the number of women who advance to senior
and leadership positions is not nearly this high. There are many reasons why the number of
women in leadership roles in academic medicine has not kept pace with the number of
women entering the field of medicine. Two popular themes are the glass ceiling (referring to
an invisible barrier to advancement) and the leaky pipeline (the loss of women faculty along …