Women in positions of leadership across medicine should advocate for the resources to improve their institutions or departments, according to a presenter at the AWIR annual conference.
Although the majority of rheumatologists in the United States are women, those physicians will earn approximately $2 million less over the course of their careers, said Sheetal Desai, MD, MSEd, chief of the division of rheumatology and associate professor in the department of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
“It is extremely frustrating,” she told attendees. “You

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