Promoting gender equity and eliminating the inequities in compensation and career advancement that physicians can face is a longstanding goal of ACP.
As an organization, we are committed to addressing the unique challenges female physicians confront over the course of their careers in order to foster an inclusive environment that promotes growth and development for female physicians. ACP believes that addressing the barriers that women in medicine face is essential for the internal medicine community to benefit from the full potential of women physicians in the workforce.
*You are welcome to use the following resources in your practice
to help promote gender equity, giving ACP credit.
Recommendations for Achieving Physician Gender Equity
This ACP position paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine provides a set of recommendations addressing the challenges women in medicine face, including equity in physician compensation, career advancement, and bias.
Read article ACP Policy on Paid Family and Medical LeaveResearch Report
Compensation Disparities by Gender in Internal Medicine
This ACP research report highlights the differences in physician compensation by gender among U.S. American College of Physicians (ACP) internal medicine physicians. Published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
What You Can Do to Impact Gender Equity
Make your mark on impacting gender equity in medicine with the following list of action items.
- ACP Members Recognize Peers Making an Impact: Nominate a fellow member who is working towards gender equality in medicine.
- ‘I Caught You Upstanding’: Learn from ACP member’s stories of particularly challenging situations they faced as women physicians and share your own story.
Multimedia
Annals Story Slam
- Personal Branding: Knowing and Promoting You
- Why Inclusion and Equity Matter for Women in Medicine and the Profession
- Cultivating the Success of Women in Medicine: Sponsorship as a Lever for Organizational Change
- Negotiating With Confidence And As If Your Life Depended On It… And Getting Over Imposter Phenomenon!
- Women in Medicine: Creating a Jedi Healthcare System
- Executive Presence: Cultivating The Intangible
- Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship for Women Physicians
- Work-Life Integration for Women in Medicine
- Being an Upstander for Women in Medicine
- Core Tenets of Leadership for Women in Medicine
- Unlocking Implicit Bias: How Our Hidden Attitudes Are Affecting How We Care For Our Patients
- Gender-Based Differences in Physician Burnout
- Networking for Women in Medicine
- Negotiating Like a Woman: The Keys to Getting What You're Worth
- Everybody In: Creating Gender Equality in Your Workplace
- Leadership Principles for Women in Medicine
- Why Not Ask? Negotiating with Confidence
- Putting Equity Principles into Action
Additional References & Resources
A collection of resources to help physicians committed to addressing gender equity at the organizational level and individually.
Gender Bias & Advancing Equity
- American Library Association: Advocating for Better Salaries and Pay Equity Toolkit
- American Medical Association: Challenging gender bias in the house of medicine
- Association of American Medical Colleges: Closing the gender pay gap in medicine
- Association of American Medical Colleges: Promising Practices for Understanding and Addressing Faculty Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools
- Carol Emmott Foundation Resource Packet: Resources to transform health by accelerating the advancement and impact of women leaders and achieving gender equity
- Catalyst BiasCorrect Plug-In: A tool and other resources to spark conversations about unconscious bias
- Harvard Business Review: Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership
- NEJM Catalyst: Lead In: Women of Impact in Health Care on Advancing Equity in the Workplace
- UC Berkeley University Health Services: Toolkit for Recruiting and Hiring a More Diverse Workforce
Leadership & Mentoring
- Brigham and Women's Hospital: BWH Mentoring Curriculum & Toolkit
- Fast Company: Here’s why we need way more women in healthcare leadership
- Harvard Business Review: The Different Words We Use to Describe Male and Female Leaders
- The Lancet: Advancing women in science, medicine, and global health
- New England Journal of Medicine: Men’s Fear of Mentoring in the #MeToo Era — What’s at Stake for Academic Medicine?
- Rock Health: What 600+ women told us about working in healthcare in 2018
- World Economic Forum: What does real leadership look like in the #MeToo era?
Addressing Sexual Harassment
- Harvard Business Review: How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients
- Harvard Business Review: Sexual Harassment Is Rampant in Health Care. Here’s How to Stop It.
- JAMA Network: Prevalence of Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine
- JAMA Network: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report on Sexual Harassment
- Marketplace: Should we think about sexual harassment as a spectrum?
- Marketplace: Drawing the line between offensive behavior and sexual misconduct (podcast)
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2018)
- New England Journal of Medicine: Ending Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine
- New England Journal of Medicine: Time’s Up for Medicine? Only Time Will Tell
- Stat: 6 in 10 doctors report abusive remarks from patients, and many get little help coping with the wounds
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