While it might be common in the nursing industry, women physicians haven’t always been as prominent in the medical field. Medicine has traditionally been a male-driven field. Sure, the majority of nurses in our country have been women since the early turn of the century, but we never saw the same representation of ladies in the physician field. However, the demographics are changing and more women than ever are gracing med schools, hospitals, facilities, clinics, and other practices across the country. Women actually are making nearly 50% of medical school populations according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. “Women are leaders everywhere you look, from a CEO to a housewife that holds together a home. Our country was built by women who stand alone.” -Denise Clark Women Physicians in the Industry Despite the growing levels of female representation that continue to fill our nation’s healthcare system; there’s one place where they are lagging behind. Apparently despite a demographic shift, less than 1/5th of the deans of medical schools, chairs of departments, division chiefs, and CEOs of hospitals in the US. In other words, less than 20% of women held some sort of leadership title in the very top of the spectrum. Women physicians and women in healthcare leadership roles continue to remain stagnant. Women are still very low on the number of practitioners that have been seen in more leadership-centric roles. Medscape’s Women as Physician Leaders Report showed that of the 3,285 female physicians of various specialties that surveyed (1764 reported being in leadership roles, 1521 did not report being in a leadership role.) A Breakdown of Female Physician Leader Job Titles The highest percentage of women physicians leadership roles was medical directors. According to the American College of Physician Executives and Cejka Search, their 2008 survey reported that approximately 40% of physician executives were in the title medical director. Despite making up almost 80% of the healthcare industry, there are currently no women CEOs in fortune 500 healthcare companies. Only 22.1% of their board members are women, about the same level as the Fortune 500 overall (20.2%). As evidence of the sluggish improvement, in 2015, 21.0% of Fortune 500 healthcare board members were women.  However, despite the modern increase in a number of females actually attending medical school, far less are actually working in their academic medical faculties. The Association of...