Career Advancement for Women Faculty in a U.S. School of Medicine: Perceived Needs

Abstract

Women faculty members were able to clearly indicate specific interventions that would improve their career success and sense of well-being. Since administrators are committed to serious consideration of these recommendations, this was a key step in advancing women's careers in academic medicine at Stanford.

Diversity and Inclusion: Strategies to Improve Pediatrics and Pediatric Health Care Delivery

“…Barriers for women include inequity in compensation, inflexibility in the tenure track path, and a climate of gender discrimination and gender insensitivity. 6 Minority faculty may regularly encounter racial and ethnic discrimination. 7,8 Both women and minority faculty experience inadequate mentoring and insufficient support of mentoring activities.…”

“…7,8 Both women and minority faculty experience inadequate mentoring and insufficient support of mentoring activities. 6,7 Developing a system for mentoring and advising junior faculty benefits all faculty, regardless of gender or race/ethnicity. Institutional commitments to leadership development and leadership transitioning programs are useful in attracting and retaining diverse faculty members.…”

Feminización en medicina: liderazgo y academia

“…Esto debe formar parte de la formación de las nuevas generaciones de médicos [40]. Como educadores y formadores, tenemos una enorme responsabilidad en romper paradigmas y esquemas, transformar ideologías y permitir que todas las personas tengan las mismas posibilidades de crecimiento y desarrollo.…”

Women in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges, Attitudes of Shiraz Female Students About Their Job Satisfaction, 2014

“…Again, this will also probably be due to a slower promotion rate or reliance on perspectives about the traditional role of women. Physician in the areas of treatment are less interested in health issues and the reason for this seems to be due to their concerns for creating a balance between their work and family responsibilities (6).…”

“…According to another study, the women physicians acknowledged that in order to achieve the same level of acceptance as their male counterparts they should increase the quality of their work by 50% compared to men (6,7). In one of the studies, 57% of women were married and had an average of 8.1 children.…”