Women in Medicine and Science - Resources

Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS):

• AAMC Gender Equity website.
  • Gender Equity Statement.
  • Understanding & Addressing Faculty Salary Equity.
  • Promising Practices for Understanding and Addressing Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools (PDF).
  • GWIMS Toolkits – A rich resource of professional development tools from the AAMC GWIMS.

• The Pandemic and the Female Academic.
• Why Do Women Make Such Good Leaders during COVID-19?
• How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America.
• UN Secretary-General’s Policy Brief: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Women.
• COVID-19 Resources for VAWG Mitigation and Prevention, Self and Collective Care, Assistance and More.
• An Equity-Based Approach to Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Coronavirus Reveals Just How Deep Macho Stereotypes Run through Society.
• No Room of One's Own.
• Women Academics Seem to be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus.
• Trump Team Moves to Scrap Protections for LGBTQ Patients.
• Our Response to COVID-19 is Male-Centric.
• Virtual Event Recording – “Supporting Women Academics During COVID.”

Stories of Women Who Have Made Critical Coronavirus-Related Scientific Discoveries and Inventions:

• Dr. June Almeida first discovered a coronavirus in 1964 at her laboratory in St Thomas's Hospital in London.
  • The Woman Who Discovered the First Coronavirus.
• The COVID-19 Dashboard at Johns Hopkins was launched by Lauren Gardner, a civil and systems engineering professor.
• The inventor whose discoveries while working at 3M led to development of the N95 mask was a woman, Sara Little Turnbull.
  • How One Woman Inspired the Design for the N95 Mask.

Gender Inequities During COVID-19:

• Collateral Damage: How COVID-19 is Adversely Impacting Women Physicians. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2020 Aug;15(8):507.
• Vincent-Lamarre P, Sugimoto CR, Larivière V. The Decline of Women's Research Production during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Nature Index. 19 May 2020.
• Cardel MI, Dean N, Montoya-Williams D. Preventing a Secondary Epidemic of Lost Early Career Scientists. Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women with Children. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2020 Nov;17(11):1366-70.
• Narayana S, Roy B, Merriam S, Yecies E, Lee RS, Mitchell JL, Gottlieb AS. Minding the Gap: Organizational Strategies to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2020 Dec;35(12):3681-4. 
• Miller KA, Mannix R, Schmitz G, Monuteaux MC, Lee LK. Impact of COVID-19 on Professional and Personal Responsibilities of Massachusetts Physicians. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020 Nov 1;38(11):2365-7.
• Kibbe MR. Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Manuscript Submissions by Women. JAMA Surgery. 2020 Sep 1;155(9):803-4.
• Cevik M, Haque SA, Manne-Goehler J, Kuppalli K, Sax PE, Majumder MS, Orkin C. Gender Disparities in COVID-19 Clinical Trial Leadership. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 2021 Jan.

• Strategic Initiative to Create a Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) Program at a Recently Established and Independently Accredited College of Medicine (PDF).
• The Letter of Recommendation – From the Requester to the Reference (PDF).

• Thomas TC, Romero AJ and Kuper MFM. Perspectives and Practical Advice About Writing Your Own Letter of Recommendation. MedEd Publish 2020, February 2020. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000037.1.

2020

• March 9 – The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates.
• June 23 – A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War.

2019

• January 17 – 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam.
• March 28 – The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres.
• August 20 – Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown.

• How I Think about Confidence.

• AAMC – Now More than Ever, Academic Medicine Needs to Promote Talented Women.
• New England Journal of Medicine (EJM) November 2020 article – “Women Physicians and Promotion in Academic Medicine.”
• LIFT Faculty Mentoring Program Curated Session Recordings.

• Graduate Women in Science website.

• 500 Women Scientists Organization.

• Why the Pandemic May be Hitting Female Radiologists Harder, and how Hospitals and Practices Can Counter.

• Scientific American Editorial – Scientist Mothers Face Extra Challenges in the Face of COVID19).

• Balmer DF, Courts KA, Dougherty B, Tuton LW, Abbuhl S, Hirshfield LE. Applying the Theory of Gendered Organizations to the Lived Experience of Women with Established Careers in Academic Medicine. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2020 May 26:1-0.
• Alvarez SN, Jagsi R, Abbuhl SB, Lee CJ, Myers ER. Promoting gender equity in grant making: what can a funder do? The Lancet. 2019 Feb 9;393(10171):e9-11.

• Insight Into Diversity Magazine online.

• Crafting Your Impact Statement.

• University of Arizona Ethics and Compliance Office.