Columbia University, New York.
Columbia University, New York; Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Jul;60(7):793-795. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.02.020. Epub 2021 Mar 7.
Child and adolescent psychiatry is among the top 5 medical specialties in the United States with greatest representation of women among active residents (62.5%) and of female physicians among currently practicing physicians (52.7%). (Note that our use of "gender" (women or men) and "sex" (female or male) parallels use in the referenced publications. We recognize that gender and sex are not interchangeable.) Previous studies have found women faculty physicians to be disadvantaged in attaining higher salaries, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, promotion, and tenure-even in majority-women specialties. Pediatrics, another specialty in which women predominate, has found a disproportionate number of women faculty in junior academic ranks. Furthermore, women remain a stark minority in senior-ranking leadership positions. To our knowledge, no previous publications have examined the proportion of women physicians at different faculty ranks in US academic child and adolescent psychiatry. In the summer of 2018, we began a search for a named/endowed professor position in child and adolescent psychiatry. Recognizing gender and racial disparities in recruitment, we conducted a comprehensive search for all child and adolescent psychiatry faculty members within the United States. We decided to use the collected data to investigate gender disparities among academic child and adolescent psychiatry physicians. We hypothesized that gender disparities would increase with child and adolescent psychiatry physicians' academic ranks, with greatest disparities among full professors. As separate points of inquiry, we explored gender distribution among division directors and named/endowed faculty.
儿童和青少年精神病学是美国排名前 5 的医学专业之一，在活跃的住院医师中，女性（62.5%）和目前从业的女性医生（52.7%）在该专业中的比例最高。（请注意，我们使用“性别”（女性或男性）和“性别的女性或男性）与参考出版物中的用法一致。我们认识到，性别和性别的不可互换。）先前的研究发现，女性教职员工在获得更高的工资、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的资助、晋升和终身职位方面处于不利地位，即使在女性占多数的专业中也是如此。儿科是另一个女性占多数的专业，在初级学术职位中发现了不成比例的女性教职员工。此外，女性在高级领导职位中仍然是极少数。据我们所知，以前没有出版物研究过美国学术儿童和青少年精神病学中不同教职员工中女性医生的比例。在 2018 年夏天，我们开始寻找儿童和青少年精神病学的一个冠名教授职位。鉴于招聘中的性别和种族差距，我们在美国范围内对所有儿童和青少年精神病学的教职员工进行了全面搜索。我们决定使用收集到的数据来调查学术儿童和青少年精神病学医生中的性别差距。我们假设性别差距会随着儿童和青少年精神病学医生的学术排名而增加，正教授之间的差距最大。作为单独的调查点，我们探讨了主任和冠名/特聘教职员工中的性别分布。
