Equity in surgical leadership for women: More work to do

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 494-498

  Weiss, Anna ^a   Lee, Katherine C ^a   Tapia, Viridiana ^a   Chang, David ^a   Freischlag, Julie ^b   Blair, Sarah L ^a   Ramamoorthy, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Program Director; Sex disparity; Surgical leadership; Women in surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL LEADERSHIP; UNITED STATES; WORK;

PROGRAM DIRECTOR; SEX DISPARITY; SURGICAL LEADERSHIP; WOMEN IN SURGERY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEXISM; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906235833     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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