Women physicians in medical academia. A national statistical survey
K. Farrell, M. H. Witte, M. Holguin and S. Lopez
We determined the representation of women physicians on US medical school
faculties by enumeration from school catalogues according to professorial
rank, title series, and department affilitation. We also compiled similar
data for top-level administrative posts, using periodic chronological
comparisons from 1955 through 1977 and 1978. Despite a burgeoning
population of women medical students, we found a pattern of underuse of
women physicians characterized by limited upward mobility on the faculty
(professor: median, 3.0%; range, 0% to 18.2%; assistant professor; median,
7.3%; range, 0% to 28.7%). There were no women in chief executive
positions.
