Gender equality and leadership in radiation oncology research: a plea to women to come forward

This commentary paper describes a glass ceiling in the field of academia and specifically in radiation oncology research. Evidence from the literature and personal views are presented describing some of the issues leading to underrepresentation of women in academic leadership roles. The values and d...

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Autor principal: Faivre-Finn, Corinne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10607408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37581923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20230167
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spelling pubmed-106074082023-10-28 Gender equality and leadership in radiation oncology research: a plea to women to come forward Faivre-Finn, Corinne Br J Radiol Commentary This commentary paper describes a glass ceiling in the field of academia and specifically in radiation oncology research. Evidence from the literature and personal views are presented describing some of the issues leading to underrepresentation of women in academic leadership roles. The values and drivers for women in academia are discussed. Finally, a plea is made to women to come forward and consider leadership position and to academic institutions and funders of research to reconsider the traditional metrics of academic success. The British Institute of Radiology. 2023-11 2023-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10607408/ /pubmed/37581923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20230167 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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