Gender Disparity

Female attendees were less likely than male attendees to ask questions during virtual ophthalmology grand rounds, according to a report published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Portraying professional women as superheroes who “do it all” can foster a narrative that can hold them back from career advancement, according to a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.

Annual suicide deaths in the United States hit nearly 50,000 in 2022, reaching an all-time high, according to provisional data from the CDC.

In the United States, about one in five adults with opioid use disorder received medication as treatment in 2021, according to the results of research published in JAMA Network Open.

Men continue to be more likely to die from alcohol than women; however, women have seen a greater increase in alcohol-related mortality rates in recent years, highlighting the need for evidence-based interventions, according to researchers.

Career-associated pressures appeared to influence the timing of childbearing and led to diversions in career trajectories to accommodate family building among women physicians, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women were more likely than men to leave academic medicine at all career stages, highlighting the need for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts that target recruiting and retaining female physicians, according to an expert.

GO2 for Lung Cancer praised lawmakers in the House and Senate for introducing a bipartisan bill that would increase research focus on the impact of lung cancer among women.

SAN FRANCISCO — Access to technology can bridge gaps for women with substance use disorders with issues such as care for young children, co-occurring disorders and unrelated trauma, Dawn Sugarman, PhD, said in this Healio video.

While the percentage of women and nonwhite individuals in academic medicine and biomedical research has increased, the proportion of women among recipients of the Lasker Award has not changed in more than 7 decades.