USA: Improved recruitment processes boost women enrolments
July 1st, 2008
By Monica Dobie
A study from the USA's University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that improving the university recruitment process can increase the number of women in academic departments where they are underrepresented.
Women are still markedly under represented in USA medical academia, with the research, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, noting that less than one third of physicians holding an academic appointment in the US are women. This is despite women student numbers equalling or exceeding the number of men in most ...
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