Gender Inequality

CHICAGO — Two speakers at the Women in Medicine Summit announced an effort to lift up other women and reach “an equal playing field.”

CHICAGO – A memorandum has helped participating internal medicine residency programs recognize gender-based gaps and track related gender equity metrics, researchers found.

CHICAGO — “Women leaders are disproportionately doing the [invisible] work to make the company be better, and we need to do better for our women,” Shikha Jain, MD, FACP said here.

CHICAGO — Both imposter syndrome and gaslighting can lead to heavy self-doubt, but it can often be difficult to tell the difference, according to Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH, PCC.

Systematic changes in the hematology/oncology field to support and advance female oncologists are “essential” and “required now,” Johanna E. Poterala, MD, wrote in a JAMA Oncology viewpoint.

Cultivating diversity in the cancer workforce — and particularly its leadership — has been an area of increased priority over the past several years.

Significantly fewer women physicians have verified Twitter accounts compared with their male counterparts — a disparity that “may have important implications” for their careers, researchers explained.

Despite calls to recruit and advance the careers of women scientists, little guidance exists on how exactly to achieve that goal and subsequently reduce sex disparities in medicine, researchers wrote in a JAMA Oncology viewpoint.

For the first time in 3 years, the Women in Medicine Summit will be taking place in person, from Sept. 16 to 17, in Chicago.

The detection, recognition, monitoring, referrals and management of chronic kidney disease significantly differs between men and women, according to data published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.