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Gender Differences in Faculty Retention and Rank Attainment in Academic Departments of Psychiatry

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Using 1989 data from the Faculty Roster System of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the authors examined gender differences in retention and rank attainment of psychiatry faculty who had received their first full-time medical school appointments in 1978. Retention differences between men and women were not significant in either the M.D. or the Ph.D. subgroup. Women M.D.’s in the sample had advanced through the academic ranks to a significantly lesser extent than had men M.D.’s; the rank attainment differences among Ph.D.’s, however, were not significant. These results underscore the need for more study of gender differences in the career paths of faculty in academic psychiatry departments.

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  1. Clinical Psychobiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, USA

    Ellen Leibenluft M.D. (medical officer)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA

    Mark G. Haviland Ph.D. (associate professor of psychiatry and director of research)

  3. Policy Development, and Research Department, Health Insurance Association of America, USA

    Thomas H. Dial Ph.D. (assistant director for Employer Benefits Research)

  4. American Psychiatric Association, USA

    Carolyn B. Robinowitz M.D. (senior deputy medical director)

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Leibenluft, E., Haviland, M.G., Dial, T.H. et al. Gender Differences in Faculty Retention and Rank Attainment in Academic Departments of Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 17, 73–76 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341857

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