Gender Diversity in the Psychiatric Workforce: It's Still a (White) Man's World in Psychiatry

Crystal T Clark; Jennifer L Payne

doi:10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.005

Gender Diversity in the Psychiatric Workforce: It's Still a (White) Man's World in Psychiatry

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2024 Jan;33(1):45-52. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.005.

Authors

Crystal T Clark¹, Jennifer L Payne²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital, 76 Grenville Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2, Canada; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Electronic address: crystal.clark@wchospital.ca.
² Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, PO Box 800548, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. Electronic address: Jlp4n@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu.

PMID: 37981335
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.005

Abstract

Academic psychiatry has slightly higher rates of women in the upper ranks and leadership positions than academic medicine as a whole but women continue to be seriously underrepresented. Psychiatry departments should take specific steps to address barriers for women in psychiatry including harassment and discrimination, Imposter Syndrome, lack of mentorship and sponsorship, work-life integration issues, and overinvolvement in nonpromotion generating activities. Addressing these barriers within academic psychiatry will improve the environment for all minorities.

Keywords: Academia; BIPOC; Inequity; Psychiatry; United States; Women.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Leadership
Male
Minority Groups
Psychiatry*
Workforce