Military Medicine and the Academic Surgery Gender Gap

The publication gender gap in US academic surgery

BACKGROUND Terms such as "glass ceiling" and "sticky floor" are still commonly used to describe women's role in academic surgery. Despite continued efforts to address disparities between men and women in the field, gender inequalities persist. METHODS In this investigation we highlight gender differences in published surgical literature by both quantity and impact. Websites for departments of...

The gender gap in academic leadership.

Changing the culture of academic medicine to eliminate the gender leadership gap: 50/50 by 2020.

Central to the daily struggles that successful working women face is the misalignment of the current work culture and the values of the workforce. In addition to contributing to work-life integration conflicts, this disconnect perpetuates the gender leadership gap. The dearth of women at the highest ranks of academic medicine not only sends a clear message to women that they must choose between...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Abstract: The Gender Gap in Academic Plastic Surgery: A 45-Year Analysis

of all patients having surgery on the pediatric plastic surgery service during two separate 3-month blocks bridged by a transition period for intervention implementation. In the pre-intervention group, resident reporting of complications was consistent with current practices at our institution where the chief resident on service reports complications prior to bi-monthly M&M conferences. Divisio...