Physician Men Leaders in Emergency Medicine Bearing Witness to Gender-Based Discrimination.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Approximately 60% of women physicians in emergency medicine (EM) experience gender-based discrimination (GBD). Women physicians are also more likely to experience GBD than men physicians, particularly from patients, other physicians, or nursing staff.

Objective

To describe the responses of men who are academic department chairs in EM to GBD directed toward a woman colleague.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study was a secondary data analysis drawn from interviews of men EM academic department chairs at 18 sites who participated in a qualitative descriptive study between April 2020 and February 2021 on their perceptions of the influence of gender and leadership in academic medicine. Narrative data related to GBD were extracted and coded us

SUBMITTER: Iyer MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857061 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature