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Marlys Hearst Witte, MD

JAMA. 1981;246(20):2356-2357.

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In a contemporary mystery thriller,¹ the staid male professoriate at Harvard is visibly ruffled as the feminist sleuth pursues the perpetrator of "a crime of an academic nature"—the ostracism, agony, and unseemly "death in a tenured position" of the first female professor of English. The report of Wallis and her colleagues in this issue of THE JOURNAL (p 2350) suggests that in contrast to this fictional corpus delicti, the "real-life" woman faculty member in medicine as in English is far more likely to be terminated, albeit less dramatically, in an untenured position.

Are women physicians by virtue of their sex at greater risk to wind up in the graveyard of medical academe? A politically less charged question, rather than left buried, might long since have been resolved. Suppose for a moment the subjects were rats and the end point death after an inoculum of virulent microorganisms. Corpse counts . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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University of Arizona College of Medicine American Medical Women's Association Professional Resources Research Center Tucson

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