Achieving gender equity in academic psychiatry – barriers to involvement and solutions for success

Author:

Galbally Megan1ORCID,Kotze Beth2,Bell Caroline3,Quadrio Carolyn4,Galletly Cherrie5,Herrman Helen6,Milroy Helen7,Curtis Jackie8,Green Jessica9ORCID,Power Josephine10,Hope Judy11,Sevar Katherine12,Dean Kimberlie13,Northwood Korinne14ORCID,Lampe Lisa15ORCID,Kalucy Megan16,Korman Nicole17,Lautenschlager Nicola18,Warren Nicola19ORCID,Chua Phyllis20,Anglin Rebecca21,De Alwis Seneviratne Ruwanthi20,Loi Samantha22,Burton Sara23,Arunogiri Shalini24,Morgan Shirlony25

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia and Mental Health Program, Monash Health, Clayton, VIC, Australia

2. Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia

3. Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

4. Discipline of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

5. Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, SA, Australia and Adelaide Medical School Discipline of Psychiatry, Adelaide, SA, Australia

6. Orygen, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

7. Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, Crawley, WA, Australia

8. School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

9. Peninsula Health, Frankston, VIC, Australia; Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Food and Mood Centre, Deakin University - Geelong Waterfront Campus, Geelong, VIC, Australia

10. Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

11. Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Box Hill, VIC, Australia

12. Mental Health Program, Monash Health, Clayton, VIC, Australia

13. School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Matraville, NSW, Australia

14. Metro North Mental Health Service, Queensland Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

15. School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia

16. Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia

17. Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

18. Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

19. Department of Medicine, University of Queensland Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Herston, QLD, Australia and Department of Mental Health, Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

20. Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

21. School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Freemantle, WA, Australia

22. Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC, Australia and Department of Neuropsychiatry Centre, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

23. Metro North Mental Health Service, Queensland Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

24. Addiction Research Centre, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

25. Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia and The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Abstract

Objective Women face considerable barriers in pursuing careers in academic psychiatry. Methods A group of Australian and New Zealand academic women psychiatrists convened in September 2022 to identify and propose solutions to increase opportunities for women in academic psychiatry. Results Limiting factors were identified in pathways to academia including financial support, engagement and coordination between academia and clinical services, and flexible working conditions. Gender biases and the risk of burnout were additional and fundamental barriers. Potential solutions include offering advanced training certificates to enable trainees to commence a PhD and Fellowship contemporaneously; improved financial support; expanding opportunities for research involvement; establishing mentoring opportunities and communities of practice; and strategies to enhance safety at work and redress gender bias and imbalance in academia. Conclusions Support for women in research careers will decrease gender disparity in academic psychiatry and may decrease problematic gender bias in research. Fellows and trainees, the RANZCP, universities, research institutes, governments, industry and health services should collaborate to develop and implement policies supporting changes in working conditions and training. Facilitating the entry and retention of women to careers in academic psychiatry requires mentoring and development of a community of practice to provide and enable support, role modelling, and inspiration.

Funder

Lundbeck Australia

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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