Female doctors unlikely to become academics without more exposure to research, study finds
Women are unlikely to consider careers in academic medicine without more exposure to research during their education and training, a new study has suggested. ::: ::: The researchers behind the study said that women were still significantly under-represented in the field and many faced “gender discrimination and unconscious bias” while still at medical school. Senior systematic reviewer Laurel Edmunds told BMJ Careers , “The bottom line is that the whole culture is still male dominated. There are ways of encouraging women—it needs to be more people friendly.” ::: ::: The Oxford University researchers asked why, when entry to medical schools was evenly split between men and women, those working in university medical departments were predominantly men. In the UK, women made up 55% of medical school entrants but just 28% were employed in academic medicine. In the United …
Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The empirical results support the model’s predictions: in particular (i) a housewife's schooling has a greater positive effect on her husband's earnings than a working wife’s schooling does; and (ii) the effect of a housewife's schooling increases with the length of marriage, whereas the effect of a working wife’s schooling does not change over the course of marriage.