Inside Higher Ed: Why Women Leave Academic Medicine
Phoebe S. Leboy was, she acknowledges, one of the lucky ones. It’s not that things were easy for female scientists when she came of age as an academic in the 1960s and 1970s; women earned a small fraction of the Ph.D.’s in biology and chemistry at the time, and they were an even rarer presence on medical or dental school faculties (Leboy was the first tenured faculty member at Penn’s dental school).
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