Sex Differences in Academic Rank in US Medical Schools in 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The proportion of women at the rank of full professor in US medical schools has not increased since 1980 and remains below that of men. Whether differences in age, experience, specialty, and research productivity between sexes explain persistent disparities in faculty rank has not been studied.

Objective

To analyze sex differences in faculty rank among US academic physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

We analyzed sex differences in faculty rank using a cross-sectional comprehensive database of US physicians with medical school faculty appointments in 2014 (91,073 physicians; 9.1% of all US physicians), linked to information on physician sex, age, years since residency, specialty, authored publications, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, an

SUBMITTER: Jena AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4665995 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature