Health care providers hold negative explicit and implicit biases against marginalized groups
of people such as racial and ethnic minoritized populations. These biases permeate the …

Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities are replicated and reinforced in health
systems, contributing to gender inequalities in health. In this Series paper, we explore how …

Importance Despite women composing half of current medical school classes, surgical
specialties still struggle to attract and retain women. Even after successful recruitment into …

Background Women remain underrepresented in academic medicine, particularly in
leadership positions. This lack of women in leadership has been shown to have negative …

Importance Previous studies have shown that medical student mistreatment is common.
However, few data exist to date describing how the prevalence of medical student …

Background: Ensuring the strength of the physician workforce is essential to optimizing
patient care. Challenges that undermine the profession include inequities in advancement …

• Gender inequity persists in medicine and medical academia in Canada, particularly in
leadership.• Greater gender equity has been shown to be better for health policy-making …

Figure 1:(A) Scatterplot of the proportion of women in a specialty and the average gross
payments per physician by specialty.(B) Scatterplot of the proportion of women in a specialty …

The gender composition of physician specialties varies dramatically with some becoming
increasingly female predominant while others remain overwhelmingly male. In their analysis …

Background: Women seldom reach the highest leadership positions in academic plastic
surgery. Contributing factors include lack of female role models/mentors and lack of gender …