Healio: Career disruptions among women in medicine may 'reverberate far beyond COVID-19'

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted progress toward gender equity in medicine that may resonate for years to come, according to experts.

One area of widening gender inequity is research publications. A new study showed that women submitted fewer research manuscripts to Annals of Family Medicine during the pandemic than men, despite an overall increase in volume of submissions.

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