Four Key Steps to Advance Women Leaders in Medicine
The intense focus on health inequities magnified by COVID-19 brought long-overdue attention to the needs of people from historically disenfranchised and diverse communities. Physicians must realize equity in healthcare with a parallel focus on diversity in the workforce, including leadership positions. There is a diversity gap in healthcare leadership, which includes gender. This gap widened during the pandemic. Nowhere is this imbalance more apparent than in the gender pay gap, the largest of which exists in healthcare among physicians and surgeons. Dr. Gin lays out her four steps to creating a more inclusive work environment for women in medicine and empowering them to become leaders:
- Build recovery strategies that include women decision-makers
- Recruit purposefully and creatively
- Adopt policies to support work-life balance
- Move from mentorship to sponsorship
Four Key Steps to Advance Women Leaders in Medicine (Medpage, Dr. Gin, 3/8).
