Intersectionality and Its Impact on Microaggression in Female Physicians in Academic Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study

Alyson K. Myers · Myia S. Williams · Renée Pekmezaris

16 citations0/0 files storedWomen s Health Reports

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Diversity and Career in Medicine Innovations in Medical Education Workplace Violence and Bullying

Abstract

Introduction: The burden of microaggressions in the workplace is an ongoing stressor for female physicians in academic medicine. For female physicians of Color or of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual community, this burden is even heavier due to the concept of intersectionality. The goal of this study is to assess frequency of microaggressions experienced by participants. In addition, to explore the associations between microaggression and individual outcomes, patient care practices and attitudes, and perception of pay/promotion equity. Methods: This was a cross-sectional analysis of female residents, fellows and attendings conducted from December 2020-January 2021 at Northwell Health across all specialties. One hundred seventeen participants replied to the study in REDCap. They completed questionnaires related to the topics of imposter phenomenon, microaggressions, gender identity salience, patient safety, patient care, counterproductive work behavior and pay and promotion equity. Results: A majority of the respondents were white (49.6%) and 15+ years out of medical school (43.6%). Around 84.6% of female physicians endorsed experiencing microaggressions. There were positive associations between microaggressions and imposter phenomenon as well as microaggressions and counterproductive work behavior. There was a negative association between microaggressions and pay equity or promotion. The small sample size did not allow for us to examine differences by race. Discussion: Although the number of female physicians continues to rise due to an uptick in female medical school enrollees, female physicians still must deal with the burden of microaggressions in the workplace. Conclusions: As a result, academic medical institutions must seek to create more supportive workplace for female physicians.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 16 citations exist upstream.

References

1991Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color 2007Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice.1963Towards an understanding of inequity.1985Personality and Individual Differences 1997Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity: A preliminary investigation of reliability and constuct validity.2018The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?2018Gender Differences in Academic Medicine: Retention, Rank, and Leadership Comparisons From the National Faculty Survey 2020Women Physicians and Promotion in Academic Medicine

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.