Women underrepresented on editorial boards of 60 major medical journals

Gender Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 378-387

  Amrein, Karin ^a   Langmann, Andrea ^a   Fahrleitner Pammer, Astrid ^a   Pieber, Thomas R ^a   Zollner Schwetz, Ines ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

academic career; academic medicine; gender discrimination; gender equality; human resources; work environment

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; DENMARK; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITOR; EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; GYNECOLOGY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; IRELAND; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSTETRICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIALIZATION; SURGICAL SCIENCE; TEACHER; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREJUDICE; PUBLISHING; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SPECIALIZATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 83155160944     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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