Women faculty achieve promotion to full professor equivalent to men faculty in a subset of US academic pathology departments.

Debra G B Leonard, Melvin Limson, Valerie A Fitzhugh, Deniz Peker Barclift, Eileen A Ryan

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Debra G B LeonardDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine of the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.

Melvin LimsonAssociation for Academic Pathology, Wilmington, DE, USA.

Valerie A FitzhughDepartment of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, NJ, USA.

Deniz Peker BarcliftDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Eileen A RyanDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Abstract

Women faculty in academic medicine remain underrepresented at higher faculty ranks despite equal numbers of men and women medical students since 2003. This 2022 study asked if US academic pathology departments had achieved equity across academic rank for women faculty. The survey of 135 member departments of the Association for Academic Pathology requested data regarding chair characteristics, other department leaders' number and gender, and faculty number and gender by academic rank and track. Sixty-four (47%) member departments responded. Twenty-three of the responding departments (36%) had equity of women and men full professors, defined as <5% difference women and men full professors as a percentage of total faculty. Departments with professor gender equity more often had a woman chair (

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PMID40837965

DOI10.1016/j.acpath.2025.100215

PMCPMC12362103

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