Defining the problem ‐ and the solutions – to our stubborn challenge of gender equity

Abstract

Now is the critical time to consider the pipeline of women in medicine: for the past two years, 51% matriculants into medical school were women (1) – a milestone ‐ and increasing data demonstrates the value of women in terms of providing high quality healthcare, innovative leadership, bottom line financial results, and groundbreaking research. And yet, disturbingly, gender disparities in compensation (2, 3), promotion (4), and leadership (5) in medicine have been persistently observed, even after accounting for a wide variety of potential explanatory factors, and these data are in parallel with common narratives of on‐the‐ground discouraging and demoralizing gender‐based experiences among women physicians (6). Medicine has a compelling impetus to understand and improve the healthcare workplace for all women.

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