Book chapter
The Path Forward: Using Metrics to Promote Equitable Work Environments
Pediatric Collections: Social Determinants of Health (Part 3: Promoting Health Equity)
31 May 2022
Abstract
Women continue to be underrepresented in medicine, especially in senior leadership positions, and they experience challenges related to gender bias and sexual harassment. Women who are members of multiple groups that experience marginalization, including, for example, women who are American Indian, Alaskan native, indigenous, Black, or Hispanic, face a compounded challenge. In this article, we explore how institutions and professional organizations in medicine can use metrics to better understand the structural disparities that create and promote gender inequity in the work environment and how to employ these metrics to track progress in narrowing these gaps. Examples in health care (clinical medicine, scientific organizations, scientific publishing), business, and law are used to illustrate how impactful metrics can promote accountability when coupled with transparent reporting.
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- Title
- The Path Forward: Using Metrics to Promote Equitable Work Environments
- Creators
- Catherine Cansino - University of California, DavisKajal Khanna - Stanford UniversityXenia Johnson Bhembe - Cambridge Health AllianceBarbara Overholser - Drexel UniversityHelen R. BurstinNancy D. Spector - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Pediatric Collections: Social Determinants of Health (Part 3: Promoting Health Equity)
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pediatrics; College of Medicine
- Other Identifier
- 991021811631804721