Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Anesthesiology

Paloma Toledo; Choy R. Lewis; Elizabeth M.S. Lange

doi:10.1016/j.anclin.2020.01.004

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Anesthesiology

Paloma Toledo^*, Choy R. Lewis, Elizabeth M.S. Lange

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Anesthesiology

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Abstract

The demographics of the United States is changing with 51% of the population being female, and 32% of the population identifying as an underrepresented minority (URM, ie, African American/black, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander). Women and URMs have been historically underrepresented in medicine and in academic anesthesiology. This article provides an overview of the current status of women and URM faculty in academic anesthesiology and provides a framework for academic advancement. Throughout the text, the terms woman/women are used, as opposed to female, as the terms woman/women refer to gender, and female refers to biological sex.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	449-457
Number of pages	9
Journal	Anesthesiology Clinics
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2020.01.004
State	Published - Jun 2020

Funding

P. Toledo was supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities ( R03MD011628 , R03HS025267 , and R18HS026169 ). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. A more recent evaluation of grants funded by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) between 2014 and 2019 revealed that women applicants had a lower funding success rate than men applicants (8.7% vs 22%). As part of an initiative to decrease the gender gap in cardiac anesthesiology research, the SCA plans to create a $50,000 2-year starter grant dedicated to promoting early-career women in research in 2020 (personal communication with Lindsey Baris, Operations Administrator, Society for Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, 2019).

Keywords

Academic anesthesiology
Diversity
Gender
Leadership
Underrepresented minorities
Women

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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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