CHICAGO — According to WHO, women represent 67% of the global health and social care workforce, providing essential health services to approximately 5 billion people worldwide.
However, research has shown that fewer than 30% of women hold senior leadership positions within medicine.
“Traditionally, most of the people we have seen in leadership within and outside of medicine have typically been men and, even more specifically, white men,” Mary K. Mulcahey, MD, professor and chief of sports medicine in the department of orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation at Loyola University