Gender Equity in Clinical Dermatology

It is not news that medicine struggles to achieve gender equity, particularly in leadership, academics, and research. In an analysis of more than 90  000 academics in 2014, only 12% of women were full professors compared with 29% of men. Even when accounting for experience, productivity, specialty, and age, women were still statistically significantly less likely to be full professors. Women are so scarce in senior leadership positions that ch airs of academic departments are more likely to be men with mustaches than to be women. Women in medicine also report high levels of discrimination. Junior faculty women receive less start-up support, and women are more likely than men to leave academics. Salaries are lower for women, even when adju sting for specialty, rank, leadership, publications, and research time. Women speakers at grand rounds are introduced informally statistically significantly more often than their male peers.

Source: JAMA Dermatology - February 6, 2019 Category: Dermatology Source Type: research