Progress still needed for pregnant and postpartum gastroenterologists (MDedge)

Despite increasing numbers joining the field, women remain a minority group in gastroenterology, where they constitute only 18% of these physicians.¹ Additionally, women continue to be underrepresented among senior faculty and in leadership roles in both academic and private practice settings.² While women now make up a majority of medical school matriculants^3,4 women trainees are frequently dissuaded from pursuing specialty fellowships following residency, particularly in procedurally based fields like gastroenterology, because of perceived incompatibility with childbearing and child-rearing.