Gender Distribution of Authors of Evaluation Letters for Promotion at One Medical School.

Autor:	Logeais ME; M.E. Logeais is assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and general internist, Division of Geriatrics, Palliative and Primary Care, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6256-8721 ., Eckerstorfer M; M. Eckerstorfer is mobile health initiative lead coordinator and past executive assistant for faculty affairs, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota., Krohn KM; K.M. Krohn is assistant professor and hospitalist, Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-7128 ., Everson-Rose SA; S.A. Everson-Rose is professor, Department of Medicine, associate director for research, Division of Geriatrics, Palliative and Primary Care, associate director, Program in Health Disparities Research, and director, Health Equity Leadership and Mentoring Program, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9839-2537 ., Termuhlen AM; A.M. Termuhlen is professor, Department of Pediatrics, and associate dean, Department of Faculty Affairs, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-5546 ., Joseph AM; A.M. Joseph is Wexler Professor of Medicine and vice chair for faculty affairs and diversity, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-2679 .
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges [Acad Med] 2022 Dec 01; Vol. 97 (12), pp. 1816-1823. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 05.
DOI:	10.1097/ACM.0000000000004803
Abstrakt:	Purpose: Women remain underrepresented in key leadership positions and advanced ranks in academic medicine. This study examines the numbers of men and women letter writers for promotion candidates during a 5-year period across departments, tracks, ranks, and candidate gender. Method: A descriptive study characterized the gender of evaluation letter writers for candidates for promotion to associate or full professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School between 2015 and 2020. Letter writer and candidate gender were characterized by self-identified pronouns in the faculty biography or dossier. Letter writer gender was described by candidate department, promotion track, rank, terminal degree, and gender. Results: Among 299 candidates for promotion, 172 (58%) were men and 127 (42%) were women; dossiers included 3,995 evaluation letters. Across all years, men wrote more letters than women (external letters, range, 69% in 2019-2020 to 75% in 2015-2016; internal letters, range, 67% in 2018-2019 to 77% in 2015-2016). Candidates in the family medicine and pediatrics departments had the highest percentages of letters written by women (44% and 40%, respectively). No differences were found in the number of women letter writers by candidate promotion track; however, differences were found by candidate rank (associate professor, 30%; full professor, 23%) and terminal degree (MD/DO, 25%; PhD, 33%; MD-PhD, 20%). Regardless of candidate gender, most evaluation letters were written by men. Women candidates had 15% to 20% more letters authored by women than men candidates (34%-40% vs 18%-23%). Conclusions: The gender pattern of letter writers may reflect implicit biases regarding gender and perceived leadership status, expertise, and success. Adopting policies that promote or require gender diversity among letter writers for promotion candidates may provide an opportunity to encourage faculty to seek diverse networks and recognize the achievements of women faculty. (Copyright © 2022 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.)
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