GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN MEDICINE

ABSTRACT : Women physicians continue to achieve tremendous advancements in medicine, both professionally and personally, from the boardroom to the front lines of the COVID-19 response. Women continue to be on an uneven playing field with their male coworkers because of persistent and serious inequities. Women doctors are sometimes paid less for doing the same work and having the same duties as men, even when the female doctor has experience that is comparable to or greater. In both academics and organized medicine, there are fewer female leaders. Women are far too frequently denied tenure at prestigious academic institutions. They receive significantly fewer bylines in scholarly publications, and they frequently experience implicit or overt bias, which prevents them from rising in their careers at the same rate as males. We must take advantage of the chance it presents to assess how far we have come toward gender equality in medicine and how painfully far away that goal still is.

KEYWORDS: Gender, Discrimination, Medicine, Promotions, Specialties, Positions.