Gender Distribution in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Leadership

• DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3555
• Publication Date: 2020-12-23T01:31:02Z
• Authors: Jessica M Allan; Juliann L Kim; Shawn L Ralston; Nicole M Paradise...; Rebecca Blankenburg; Erin E Shaughnessy; H Barrett Fromme
• Keywords: Hospital Medicine; Leadership; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 5. Gender equality; Humans; Female; Fellowships and Scholarships; Child; Hospitals, Pediatric; 3. Good health

Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM), a field early in its development and with a robust pipeline of women, is in a unique position to lead the way in gender equity. We describe the proportion of women in divisional and fellowship leadership positions at university-based PHM programs (n = 142). When compared with the PHM field at large, women appear to be underrepresented as PHM division/program leaders (70% vs 55%; P < .001) but not as fellowship directors (70% vs 66%; P > .05). Women appear proportionally represented in associate/assistant leadership roles when compared with the distribution of the PHM field at large. Tracking these trends overtime is essential to advancing the field. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2020;15:XXX-XXX. © 2020 Society of Hospital Medicine