March 3, 2000

Female Professors Said to Lag at Medical Schools

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Female physicians are more likely than their male counterparts to teach in medical schools, but they also have a better chance of getting stuck in junior ranks, according to a study reported in February in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Women who graduated from medical school from 1979 to 1993 were 10 percent more likely than men to become faculty members. However, the women who joined faculties were 26 percent less likely to be promoted to associate

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