Mind the (Gender) Gap: Inequities Among Women in Academic Rheum
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English - April 15, 2021 16:20 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBMedicine Health & Fitness health healthcare medicine rheumatology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Recent studies have indicated the persistence of gender gaps in terms of promotion, publication, and federal funding in academic rheumatology in the United States, despite an increase in the number of women rheumatologists in the workforce over the years.
Authors of a paper published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology noted, “To move forward, we must find ways to address the gender gap in rheumatology with the goal of creating a workforce as diverse as the patient population it serves.”
In this episode, we are speaking with the authors, Shereen Mahmood, MD, and Irene Blanco, MD, to get further insight into the existing inequities among women in academic rheumatology, and how gender gaps can be bridged and parity achieved.