Why Arenʼt There More Women Leaders in Academic Medicine? The Views of Clinical Department Chairs

Yedidia, Michael J.; Bickel, Janet

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“…However, although overt barriers to women in academic medicine greatly diminished during the twentieth century, it appears that the percentage of female faculty has not changed much in the last 2 decades, despite the increasing number of women entering medical school and the increasing number of women among physicians. In most countries in Europe and in North America, the "bottle neck" for women appears to be primarily at the associate professor and full professor levels (34,(46)(47)(48).…”

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Women in academic rheumatology

Lundberg¹,

Özen²,

Ayata³

et al. 2005

Arthritis & Rheumatism

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Women in academic rheumatology

Lundberg¹,

Özen²,

Ayata³

et al. 2005

Arthritis & Rheumatism

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“…In addition, women in positions of authority found that their attempts to provide individual mentoring to others were ignored or even thwarted. For example, female chairs in medical schools found that males, as well as females, under their leadership were more resistant to reporting to them or accepting their leadership styles and decision-making [46].…”

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Women for a Change: Closing the Leadership Gap

Soklaridis

López

2014

Acad Psychiatry

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In the fall of 2013, the first author (SS) attended the Association for Academic Psychiatry's annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. During a panel discussion on the second day, the issue of why there are so few women leaders in psychiatry did not simply emerge-it exploded, so much so that it was a challenge for the highly skilled facilitator of the discussion to move the conversation away from gender and into other areas of navigating a career as a psychiatric educator. At the workshops, conversations and questions invariably led back to this concern about the lack of women leadership in psychiatry.Women and leadership is a hot topic, not only in the sense of its public popularity, but also in the strong beliefs and contested opinions it elicits about why so few women hold leadership positions. In post-AAP conversations, we reflected on the genuine concern expressed by conference participants who were courageous enough to speak about a topic that often provokes visceral, and sometimes vitriolic, reactions. Our conversations led us to consider how the dialogue generated during the AAP conference on the topic of women and leadership in psychiatry has deep roots in our current social and cultural environment. We discussed how a North American post-feminist culture that places such a high value on individualism influences how we develop, promote, and retain women aspiring to assume and be successful in leadership roles. The lack of women in leadership roles is not unique to psychiatry. This article provides a brief overview of feminism, post-feminism, and individualism as a means of grounding the conversation. We also offer considerations on which leaders in departments of psychiatry may reflect as they work toward maximizing female talent in their settings. Feminism, Post-feminism, and IndividualismThere are many "feminists" and many different theories. Modern feminism, however, can be grouped into three waves: The first wave spanned the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century; the second wave occurred between the early 1960s and the late 1980s; and the third wave began in the early 1990s and continues today into post-feminism.The first wave of feminism emerged in the context of industrial society, liberal politics, and the movement to abolish slavery. Its goal was to create access and equal opportunities for women, with a focus primarily on suffrage but also on access to education and health care; the right to work, possess money, and own property; and women's right to themselves and their own bodies. First-wave feminists spent years in activism that can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Most people consider the first wave to have ended when women were granted the right to vote.Second-wave liberal feminism of the 1960s and 1970s emerged in the context of postwar Western welfare societies and the civil rights movement. The second wave focused on expanding equal opportunities for women within our existing social, economic, and political system. It was widely believed that our societal systems...

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“…Este estudio demostró que únicamen-te el 6% de los puestos de dirección estaban ocupados por mujeres. Esta evidencia ha hecho hincapié en la falta de mentores efectivos, oportunidades de desarrollo profesional y ambiente de trabajo libre de ideologías de género [28]. Este estudio fue realizado en Estados Unidos, por lo que podemos imaginar la situación en países con otro tipo de mentalidad y oportunidades.…”

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“…Los autores consideran que esto es importante para el continuo desarrollo y para servir de ejemplo a las nuevas generaciones [33]. En muchas ocasiones, la causa de este retraso en la participación de la mujer en la vida académica reside en la dificultad que afrontan las mujeres para encontrar buenos tutores, oportunidades de desarrollo laboral y ambiente laboral libre de discriminación [28].…”

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Feminización en medicina: liderazgo y academia

Flores-Domı́nguez¹

2012

Educ. méd.

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Why Arenʼt There More Women Leaders in Academic Medicine? The Views of Clinical Department Chairs

Cited by 286 publications

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Women in academic rheumatology

Women in academic rheumatology

Women for a Change: Closing the Leadership Gap

Feminización en medicina: liderazgo y academia

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