Gender Differences in Experiences of Leadership Emergence Among Emergency Medicine Department Chairs.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The number of women entering medicine continues to increase, but women remain underrepresented at all tiers of academic rank and chair leadership in EM. The proportion of female chairs in EM has not exceeded 12% in 2 decades.

Objective

To compare how male and female EM chairs experience leadership emergence, with attention to factors associated with support of the emergence of female chairs.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative descriptive study was conducted between April 2020 and February 2021 at 36 US academic EM departments. Eligible participants were all current and emeritus female EM academic department chairs (with a possible cohort of 20 individuals) and an equal number of randomly selected male chairs.

Interventions

Semistructu

SUBMITTER: Hobgood C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8914574 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature