Women in Academic Psychiatry: Inequities, Barriers, and Promising Solutions

• Published in: Academic psychiatry 2021-02, Vol.45 (1), p.110-119
• Main Authors: Borlik, Marcy Forgey, Godoy, Sarah M, Wadell, Paula M, Petrovic-Dovat, Lidija, Cagande, Consuelo C, Hajirnis, Aditi, Bath, Eraka P
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Barriers; College professors; Commentary; Deans; Diversity; Equity; Ethnicity; Faculty Promotion; Female; Females; Fringe Benefits; Gender Discrimination; Gender identity; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Inclusion; Leadership; Males; Medical Education; Medical School Faculty; Medical schools; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Minority & ethnic groups; Oppression; Pacific Islander people; Pacific Islanders; Physicians, Women; Psychiatry; Race; Racial Differences; Racial Identification; Sexual orientation; Spanish Culture; Systemic racism; Tenure; Wages & salaries; Whites; Women Faculty
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-020-01389-5

For the first time in US history, first-year female medical school matriculants (50.7%) outnumbered men (49.3%) in 2017 [1]. [...]in 2019, women accounted for 50.5% of all medical students for the first time [1]. The Association of American Medical Colleges defines underrepresented in medicine (URM) as “those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population” [6].We use the term “URM women” to describe these women, who include all who do not identify as exclusively White or Asian [6]. Data for decanal race/ethnicity was not readily available. Table 1 shows the number and relative percentages of women among psychiatry faculty by race/ethnicity at each rank [3].