Gender ratios in EM

[combatwombat]

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Does anyone have an idea of the breakdown of male vs female attendings in EM? I've rotated through 3 ED's so far, and have yet to see a female attending. Just curious.

 

[RustedFox]

There's a law against female EM attendings.

Nah. Just kiddin'... At my program, we have a pretty equal number of male and female faculty docs. Oddly enough; the girls love to work nights, and do so almost exclusively.

n = 1.

 

[JacobMcCandles]

There's a law against female EM attendings.

Nah. Just kiddin'... At my program, we have a pretty equal number of male and female faculty docs. Oddly enough; the girls love to work nights, and do so almost exclusively.

n = 1.

That's because most girls are blood sucking vampires. 😉

 

[EM Junkie]

Our (community EM) group just hired 4 new docs, all female.

 

[RustedFox]

That's because most girls are blood sucking vampires. 😉

Zzzzzing !

 

[EMmotherhen]

Our of 12 faculty, five are women

 

[diphenyl]

There's 2 in my current group. That's out of a group of about 20

 

[docB]

My group has about 25%.

 

[rbg219]

I'm curious too. It seemed on the interview trail this year there consistently was 2-3 guys for every girl interviewing. Didn't realize until then quite how gender imbalanced EM is, though everyone I've worked with has been awesome and I never ever felt like it was an issue, unlike some other specialties (*cough*surgery*cough*)

 

[deleted65604]

Having observed 6 different ERs prior to residency, and experienced 5 different ERs after residency, I'd say the ratio is 20 percent female.

 

[WilcoWorld]

Of my 2 post-residency jobs one place had 24% women, the other was 32%. Both places were academic so this may be a biased sample.

I think the numbers must be on the way up, as every residency class I've seen since 2008 has been close to or over 50% women.

 

[WilcoWorld]

Also, Tintinalli's first name is Judith.

 

[deleted109597]

USC (East, not west) actually brings this up during their interview, or they used to. The PD said "the one thing everyone commented on is how all the attendings are old white guys. So I've tried to change it. Now it's old white guys with some young women."
As far as my job, there are 3 women in the core group of 15 of us. There used to be 4, but she had personality conflicts.

 

[dotcb]

40% (13/33) where I am

 

[member11223344]

the number i was quoted by a program director was 70/30 male:female nationally for attendings.

 

[ccfccp]

The class behind ours matched 11/14 female residents. I'll admit that was an aberration, but our program has been pretty consistently about 50/50 in the last 5-7 years.

I'm curious too. It seemed on the interview trail this year there consistently was 2-3 guys for every girl interviewing. Didn't realize until then quite how gender imbalanced EM is, though everyone I've worked with has been awesome and I never ever felt like it was an issue, unlike some other specialties (*cough*surgery*cough*)

 

[Foster23]

The class behind ours matched 11/14 female residents. I'll admit that was an aberration, but our program has been pretty consistently about 50/50 in the last 5-7 years.

There ratio of male:Female attendings at my place is 70:30. But as for residents, we are 50:50.

 

[monkeybutt]

Our faculty are about 25 - 30% female. Residency is probably more like 40%.

However, many of the female faculty are part-time, so the actual number of shifts worked ratio is more skewed toward male.

 

[Dane07MD]

removed. didnt realize OP wanted attendings.

 

[la gringa]

the number i was quoted by a program director was 70/30 male:female nationally for attendings.

sounds about right... and, right where i like it 😉

said ratio is part of why i chose EM - enough women, but not too many!!! 😉

and yes, i'm a woman

 

[Lysinee]

Do you see similar ratios for overnights or 12 hr shifts?

 

[EctopicFetus]

My residency was about 50/50. oonlighting job was about 40% and my current gig is 5 women out of 39.

One of those 5 women does all nights and has done so for over a decade.

Of my close female friends, once they have kids they really cut their hours. One works like 60-80 hours a month and the others around 100.

 

[docB]

removed. didnt realize OP wanted attendings.

Today's residents = tomorrow's attendings. Sounds like we continue to be male dominated at the attending level but this will change as the current crop of residents gets out. Will the part time preference change? We'll see.

 

[jendc08]

In my group (community) we have 17 docs and 5 of us are women.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

It's 80/20 on average nationally, and that's about what my group is.

I'm surprised there aren't more women in the field as it is particularly friendly to child-rearing (working part-time, taking extended periods of time off etc)