• 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 …

Importance The persistence of inequities that disadvantage women physicians remains
empirically underexplained. Understanding the cultural factors that are associated with …

Women comprise more than one third of the active physician workforce, an estimated 46% of
all physicians-in-training, and more than half of all medical students in the United States …

Background Disparity exists between men and women physicians. We aimed to examine
changes in gender disparity in the medical profession over the last two decades. The study …

There is currently much interest in identifying and mitigating gender inequity within
medicine, the greater workforce and society as a whole. We provide an evidence-based …

Much has been written recently on gender disparities in medicine and the negative
outcomes that result for women. The impetus for examining these disparities is manifold …

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 …

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

Gender, understood as “social relationships between males and females in terms of their
roles, behaviours, activities, attributes and opportunities, and which are based on different …

Importance Sex equity is elusive in academic surgery departments across the United States.
Persistent inequities remain a considerable problem and inhibit professional advancement …