Association of Physician Characteristics With Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Equity in an Academic Internal Medicine Department

Ruzycki, Shannon M.; Freeman, Georgina; Bharwani, Aleem; Brown, Allison

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.15165

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“…47,48 Men in leadership ben efit from the higher income associated with leadership and can also perpetuate the policies and informal support networks that recruit, retain and promote other men at disproportionately higher rates. 49,50 Women in medicine are more likely to experience imposter syndrome and to have lower salary expectations than men, 51 but this may result from the anchoring of expectations and feelings of selfworth that go along with lower starting salaries. 52 Likewise, women see themselves as less capable of negotiating higher pay than men 51 but are also more likely to experience consequences from trying to do so.…”

Section: What Are Some Of the Root Causes Of The Gender Pay Gap?mentioning

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Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Cohen

Kiran

2020

CMAJ

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Women in Canadian medicine consistently earn less than men. • The pay gap between women and men exists within every medical specialty and also between specialties, with physicians in maledominated specialties receiving higher payments. • The gender pay gap in medicine is not explained by women working fewer hours or less efficiently but, rather, relates to systemic bias in medical school, hiring, promotion, clinical care arrangements, the fee schedule itself and societal structures more broadly. • Actions for closing the gap include antioppression training, challenging the hidden curriculum in medical education, fair and transparent hiring and referral processes, changing the relative value of fee codes and transparent reporting of physician payments stratified by gender.

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Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Cohen

Kiran

2020

CMAJ

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“…It is well documented that a gender gap exists between men and women with regard to academic rank, leadership roles, and remuneration across US academic medical centers (6)(7)(8). In a study of the US academic physician workforce, women were less likely than men to achieve academic ranks of associate or full professor, even after adjustment for age, experience, specialty, and productivity (1).…”

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The Association Between Physician Gender and Career Advancement Among Academic Rheumatologists in the United States

Jorge

Bolster

et al. 2020

Arthritis & Rheumatology

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Objective. To determine the potential association between physician gender and academic advancement among US rheumatologists. Methods. We performed a nationwide, cross-sectional study of all rheumatologists practicing in the US in 2014 using a comprehensive database of all licensed physicians. Among academic rheumatologists, we estimated gender differences in faculty rank, adjusting for differences in physician age, years since residency graduation, publications, National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, registered clinical trials, and appointment at a top 20 medical school using a multivariate logistic regression model. We also estimated gender differences in leadership positions (i.e., division director and fellowship program director). Results. Among 6,125 total practicing rheumatologists, 941 (15%) had academic faculty appointments in 2014. Women academic rheumatologists (41.4%) were younger and had completed residency more recently than men. Women had fewer total publications, publications on which they were the first or last author, and NIH grants. In fully adjusted analyses, women were less likely to be full or associate professors than men, with an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 0.78 (95% confidence interval [95% CI] 0.62-0.99]). Women in rheumatology had similar odds as men of being a fellowship program director or division director (adjusted OR 0.99 [95% CI 0.69-1.43] and adjusted OR 0.96 [95% CI 0.66-1.41], respectively). Conclusion. Among academic rheumatologists, women are less likely than men to be full or associate professors but have similar odds of being fellowship program directors or division directors, when adjusting for several factors known to influence faculty promotion. These differences suggest barriers to academic promotion despite representation in leadership positions within rheumatology divisions.

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“…In addition, FEMMIR initiated habit-changing educational interventions, which are known helping to breach gender bias and change climate [26]. Last, equity and gender biases are not perceived in the same way by doctors depending on their gender and their age [27], which calls for actions that can reach everybody to make them fully aware of what women perceive at work.…”

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Perceived inequity, professional and personal fulfillment by women intensivists in France

Hauw‐Berlemont

Aubron

Aïssaoui

et al. 2021

Ann. Intensive Care

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Background The medical workforce has been feminized for the last two decades worldwide. Nonetheless, women remain under-represented among intensivists. We conducted a survey among French women intensivists to assess their professional and personal quality of life and their perception of potential gender discrimination at work. Methods We conducted an observational descriptive study by sending a survey, designed by the group FEMMIR (FEmmes Médecins en Médecine Intensive Réanimation), to women intensivists in France, using primarily the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF) mailing list. The questionnaire was also available online between September 2019 and January 2020 and women intensivists were encouraged to answer through email reminders. It pertained to five main domains, including demographic characteristics, work position, workload and clinical/research activities, self-fulfillment scale, perceived discrimination at work and suggested measures to implement. Results Three hundred and seventy-one women responded to the questionnaire, among whom 16% had an academic position. Being a woman intensivist and pregnancy were both considered to increase difficulties in careers’ advancement by 31% and 73% of the respondents, respectively. Almost half of the respondents (46%) quoted their quality of life equal to or lower than 6 on a scale varying from 1 (very bad quality of life) to 10 (excellent quality of life). They were 52% to feel an imbalance between their personal and professional life at the cost of their personal life. Gender discrimination has been experienced by 55% of the respondents while 37% confided having already been subject of bullying or harassment. Opportunities to adjust their work timetable including part-time work, better considerations for pregnant women including increasing the number of intensivists and the systematic replacement during maternity leave, and the respect of the law regarding the paternity leave were suggested as key measures to enable better professional and personal accomplishment by women intensivists. Conclusion In this first large French survey in women intensivists, we pointed out issues felt by women intensivists that included an imbalance between professional and personal life, a perceived loss of opportunity due to the fact of being a woman, frequent reported bullying or harassment and a lack of consideration of the needs related to pregnancy and motherhood.

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Association of Physician Characteristics With Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Equity in an Academic Internal Medicine Department

Cited by 43 publications

References 33 publications

Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

The Association Between Physician Gender and Career Advancement Among Academic Rheumatologists in the United States

Perceived inequity, professional and personal fulfillment by women intensivists in France

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