Endowed Chairs and Professorships: A New Frontier in Gender Equity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Endowed chairs and professorships are prestigious and financially important awards that symbolize individual faculty recognition. However, data about the gender distribution of these positions are lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine the gender distribution of endowed positions at U.S. medical schools and identify strategies that have been used to promote investiture of women into these positions.

Method

The authors interrogated the websites for all U.S. medical schools for publicly available data. Of 38 schools that listed schoolwide information, they analyzed data from the 30 with at least 10 endowed positions. Then, they conducted interviews with deans of the 10 schools with the highest percentages of women holding endowed positions ("top 10") to unde

SUBMITTER: Thorndyke LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9592179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature