Women are under-represented in academic medicine resulting in a waste of public investment due to loss of research talent.
Writing in the July issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, authors of an essay on women and academic medicine say that as a consequence of female under-representation, some areas of medicine are under-researched at a cost to patients and society. Discriminatory practices and unconscious bias, they say, continue to occur in academic medicine, despite a substantial fall in traditional discrepancies between men and women in medicine in recent years. The proportion of women entering medical school today is around 53%.
“There has been a longstanding gender imbalance in clinical academia as well as laboratory-based basic medical sciences”, said lead author Professor Jonathan Grant, Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London. “This inequality increases substantially with seniority, with women representing only 15% of professors in UK medical schools.”
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