It is not for a lack of numbers of women in the workforce that accounts for the substantial leadership gap between men and women.
In the U.S., women make up 47% of the labor force and 52% of all professional level jobs, while representing only 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs, a “staggering” number, Jeannette Bankes said in a keynote presentation at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
In health care, the gap is wide. Women comprise 34.3% of all physicians and surgeons but only 15.9% of medical school deans.
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