Career Advancement Challenges for Women in Tenure Versus Clinical Tracks in Academic Medicine: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Susan Massick   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Courtney Hebert   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Sonja Chen   ^{3, 4} , MBBS ;   Shu-Hua Wang   ⁵ , MD, MPH, PharmD ;   Mengda Yu   ⁶ , MSPH ;   Gloria P Fleming   ⁷ , MD ;   Subhdeep Virk   ⁸ , MD ;   Audrey M Sigmund   ⁹ , MD ;   Kristy L Townsend   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Maya S Iyer   ^{11, 12} , MD, MEd

¹ Department of Dermatology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

² Department of Biomedical Informatics, Division of Clinical Informatics and Implementation Science, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

³ Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States

⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

⁶ Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

⁹ Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

¹⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States

¹² Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States

*these authors contributed equally