Gendered Language in Letters of Recommendation for Applicants to Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowships.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous work has demonstrated letters of recommendation for women in academic medicine are shorter and emphasize communal traits over grindstone or agentic traits.

Objective

To determine if there are sex-based differences in letters of recommendation written for applicants applying to pulmonary critical care medicine fellowships and if the sex of the letter writer impacts these differences.

Methods

All fellowship applications submitted to a pulmonary critical care medicine fellowship program in 2020 were included in this study. The applicant demographics and self-reported accomplishments were extracted from their application. The sex of letter writers was identified through public online searches. Word count and language differences in the letters of recom

SUBMITTER: Viglianti EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9590447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature