Episode 3: Leveling the Playing Field for Women

A. Kate MacDougall

Beth Eaby-Sandy, MSN, CRNP, OCN

A. Kate MacDougall, editor and writer, speaks with Beth Eaby-Sandy, MSN, CRNP, OCN, of the Abramson Cancer Center on data showing that women still lag behind men in areas like pay and leadership positions, and the particular challenges in oncology for women.

Articles referenced in this episode:

Women in Healthcare Leadership 2019, Oliver Wyman.

Still a Man's Labor Market: The Slowly Narrowing Gender Wage Gap, Institute for Women's Policy Research, November 26, 2018.

2017 National Nurse Practitioner Sample Survey, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, August 8, 2018.

How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession, Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, August 21, 2019.

Female Physicians Reject Good Enough Miriam A. Knoll, MD, Forbes, 2019.

The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses, Danielle Ofri, The New York Times, June 8, 2019.

What's Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership, Harvard Business Review, June 19, 2018.