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Soto de Laurido LE, Frontera WR, Estape ES. A visiting endowed chair to support mentoring and career coaching for early career researchers. J Clin Transl Sci 2023; 7:e241. [PMID: 38028355 PMCID: PMC10663765 DOI: 10.1017/cts.2023.665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
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- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- School of Health Professions, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Research Center, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Caguas, Puerto Rico
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Burns CJ, Russell CB, Griffith KA, Mangurian C, Johnson TRB, Jagsi R. Gender Differences of Endowed Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology Departments at Top Academic Institutions. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2023; 32:39-46. [PMID: 36126297 DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2022.0060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Background: Gender equity is a critical issue in academic medicine. Whether there is equitable access to the prestige and resources of endowed professorships merits evaluation. We investigated this question in obstetrics and gynecology, a field that focuses on the health of women and in which women are much better represented than other specialties of medicine. Materials and Methods: We compiled a list of the top 25 United States departments of obstetrics and gynecology and contacted department chairs (and used department websites) to obtain lists of faculty and their positions. Scopus, department websites, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) RePORTER were used to collect h-Index, number of publications and citations, graduation year, degrees, gender, and NIH-funding. We conducted a bivariate comparison of endowed professorship attainment by gender using a chi-square test and created a multiple variable regression model. Results: Of the 680 obstetrics and gynecology faculty across 23 departments that had endowed chairs, 64 out of 400 women (16%) and 66 out of 280 men (24%) held endowed chairs (p = 0.01). The multivariable model suggested no independent gender difference in attainment of an endowed chair after adjusting for covariates. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this study is the first to examine gender as a variable in endowed chair allocation in top obstetrics and gynecology academic departments. Our findings suggest a significant gender difference in the allocation of endowed chairs. That difference is driven by gender differences in academic rank, graduation year, publications, and funding. To promote the intraprofessional equity necessary to optimally advance women's health, further research and intervention are necessary.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Gender and Women's Studies Department, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Singer K, Burns CJ, Griffith KA, Opipari VC, Martin DM, Shellhaas RA, Jagsi R. Gender Differences in Endowed Chairs in Pediatrics. J Pediatr 2022; 251:38-39.e1. [PMID: 35636563 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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