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“Women continue to face unique barriers to leadership including gender bias, lack of role models, maternal discrimination, and lack of equal consideration for opportunities,” notes AGA President Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF. “AGA sits in a unique position where we can influence changes in academia and practice to improve the field for all women and particularly enhance women leaders.”
A tangible way AGA supports female leadership and career advancement is the Women in GI Regional Workshops. Throughout 2024, these workshops provide opportunities for networking, business and financial education training, burnout prevention strategies, and career advice.
Bigger picture, AGA’s Gender Equity Framework paints a compelling vision for the future in six domains:
- Bias & gender disparities: Academic institutions, healthcare systems, and practices establish regular systems of equity reviews and eradicate institutional gender disparities and bias.
- Leadership & career advancement: Equitable access to leadership in the field and professional GI societies for the benefit of medicine, research, and patient care.
- Wellness & balance: Women in GI experience balanced integration of family, work, community, health, and professional growth.
- Retention & recruitment: GI is the leading specialty for women in medicine and a sustainable career where women grow and thrive.
- Mentorship & sponsorship: The benefits of mentorship and sponsorship are universally recognized and incentivized in GI institutions and practices.
- Recognition: Equitable recognition of the achievements and contributions of women in GI.
In the coming years, AGA committees will collaborate with the AGA Women’s Committee to achieve the vision laid out in the AGA Gender Equity Framework. Thank you to the AGA Women’s Committee, which created the framework, under the leadership of chair Aimee Lucas, MD, MS, AGAF, and within the auspices of the AGA Equity Project (gastro.org/equity).
“Women continue to face unique barriers to leadership including gender bias, lack of role models, maternal discrimination, and lack of equal consideration for opportunities,” notes AGA President Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF. “AGA sits in a unique position where we can influence changes in academia and practice to improve the field for all women and particularly enhance women leaders.”
A tangible way AGA supports female leadership and career advancement is the Women in GI Regional Workshops. Throughout 2024, these workshops provide opportunities for networking, business and financial education training, burnout prevention strategies, and career advice.
Bigger picture, AGA’s Gender Equity Framework paints a compelling vision for the future in six domains:
- Bias & gender disparities: Academic institutions, healthcare systems, and practices establish regular systems of equity reviews and eradicate institutional gender disparities and bias.
- Leadership & career advancement: Equitable access to leadership in the field and professional GI societies for the benefit of medicine, research, and patient care.
- Wellness & balance: Women in GI experience balanced integration of family, work, community, health, and professional growth.
- Retention & recruitment: GI is the leading specialty for women in medicine and a sustainable career where women grow and thrive.
- Mentorship & sponsorship: The benefits of mentorship and sponsorship are universally recognized and incentivized in GI institutions and practices.
- Recognition: Equitable recognition of the achievements and contributions of women in GI.
In the coming years, AGA committees will collaborate with the AGA Women’s Committee to achieve the vision laid out in the AGA Gender Equity Framework. Thank you to the AGA Women’s Committee, which created the framework, under the leadership of chair Aimee Lucas, MD, MS, AGAF, and within the auspices of the AGA Equity Project (gastro.org/equity).
“Women continue to face unique barriers to leadership including gender bias, lack of role models, maternal discrimination, and lack of equal consideration for opportunities,” notes AGA President Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF. “AGA sits in a unique position where we can influence changes in academia and practice to improve the field for all women and particularly enhance women leaders.”
A tangible way AGA supports female leadership and career advancement is the Women in GI Regional Workshops. Throughout 2024, these workshops provide opportunities for networking, business and financial education training, burnout prevention strategies, and career advice.
Bigger picture, AGA’s Gender Equity Framework paints a compelling vision for the future in six domains:
- Bias & gender disparities: Academic institutions, healthcare systems, and practices establish regular systems of equity reviews and eradicate institutional gender disparities and bias.
- Leadership & career advancement: Equitable access to leadership in the field and professional GI societies for the benefit of medicine, research, and patient care.
- Wellness & balance: Women in GI experience balanced integration of family, work, community, health, and professional growth.
- Retention & recruitment: GI is the leading specialty for women in medicine and a sustainable career where women grow and thrive.
- Mentorship & sponsorship: The benefits of mentorship and sponsorship are universally recognized and incentivized in GI institutions and practices.
- Recognition: Equitable recognition of the achievements and contributions of women in GI.
In the coming years, AGA committees will collaborate with the AGA Women’s Committee to achieve the vision laid out in the AGA Gender Equity Framework. Thank you to the AGA Women’s Committee, which created the framework, under the leadership of chair Aimee Lucas, MD, MS, AGAF, and within the auspices of the AGA Equity Project (gastro.org/equity).