COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — There continues to be a “leaky pipeline” on the way to holding higher-level faculty positions for women MDs, according to Lynn K. Gordon, MD, PhD, who is senior associate dean for equity and diversity inclusion at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Between 1965 and 2004, the number of women MD graduates increased 45%, but the overall number of women faculty increased only 28%, Gordon said in a presentation on building equity in ophthalmology at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
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