Women in the medical workplace

#MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning

Even America’s Top Doctors Aren’t Getting the Parental Leave Doctors Recommend

Medical schools aren’t good at keeping women as professors. Could better maternity leave help? Doctors recommend that new parents get 12 weeks off work, but even the top doctors teaching their future peers at America’s best medical schools are...

Speaker Introductions at Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Forms of Address Reveal Gender Bias.

Gender bias has been identified as one of the drivers of gender disparity in academic medicine. Bias may be reinforced by gender subordinating language or differential use of formality in forms of address.

The Gender Pay Gap for Doctors is Atrocious

Gender differences in compensation, job satisfaction, and other practice patterns in urology

I’m a young, female doctor. Calling me ‘sweetie’ won’t help me save your life.

“Sweetheart, you’re too young to understand,” my patient — a man in his 60s, someone accustomed to commanding a room — barked at me from his hospital bed. Medical problems had recently upended his life, and he was having a hard time...