United States medical school faculties include half as many women as men, based on a Harvard Medical School study by Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, according to Medscape.
Using a database of 2014 medical school faculty appointments, the researchers looked at gender, age and specialty, among other categories.
Here are five things to know:
1. Women account for half of medical school graduates, but only 30,464 women take medical faculty jobs, in contrast to 60,609 men.
2. Full professorships were held by 3,623 women, while 17, 354 men held full professorships.
3. The study found women faculty members to be younger and often in internal medicine and pediatrics specialties.
4. Within the faculty with a National Institutes of Health grant, 6.8 percent were women and 10.3 percent were men.
5. All medical schools demonstrated this gender discrepancy.
6. The study authors concluded there may be less women medical faculty members because of lack of mentors, recognition from senior colleagues, discrimination or inadequate resources availability.