Gender inequality in PGY1 residency leadership positions and conferral of health-system pharmacy professional awards.
Am J Health Syst Pharm
; 79(13): 1096-1102, 2022 06 23.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1740802
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To address gender inequality, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) created a steering committee that recommended the collection of baseline and ongoing metrics of pharmacy leadership. The purpose of this study was to quantify gender inequality in distributions of residency program director (RPD) and director of pharmacy (DOP) positions and to investigate gender distributions among recipients of ASHP professional leadership awards.METHODS:
RPD and DOP information for postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) programs included in the online ASHP residency directory were collected in December of 2020. Publicly available records were used to collect information on recipients of the Harvey A.K. Whitney Award and John W. Webb Award during the periods 1950-2020 and 1985-2020, respectively. Gender information for RPDs, DOPs, and award recipients was collected from listed pronouns available in public records. A χâ2 test was used for analysis of the collected data.RESULTS:
A total of 1,176 PGY1 residency programs were included. Of the RPD positions assessed, 66% (n = 775) were filled by women pharmacists (P < 0.0001), while the percentage of DOP leadership positions held by women was 42% (n = 496) (P < 0.0001). Evaluation of data on recipients of the Harvey A.K. Whitney Award and John W. Webb Award revealed the occurrence of female recipients is 19.7% (n = 14) and 16.7% (n = 6), respectively (P < 0.0001).CONCLUSION:
RPD positions have a higher prevalence of being filled by women. DOP positions remain male-dominated and revealed gender inequality among senior-level leadership roles. Pharmacy leadership award analysis identified further gender inequality. The results from the study serve as a baseline of current gender metrics for pharmacy leaderships in hospital systems with PGY1 residency programs.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pharmacy
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Awards and Prizes
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Pharmacy Residencies
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Internship and Residency
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Health Syst Pharm
Journal subject:
Pharmacy
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Hospitals
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ajhp
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