Toward a More Perfect World -- Eliminating Sexual Discrimination in Academic Medicine

Abstract

The modest study by Komaromy et al.¹ in this issue of the Journal usefully reminds the medical world that not only verbal discrimination² but also more blatant forms of sexual harassment are remarkably prevalent even in our prestigious profession. Interestingly, the authors included male residents among those surveyed and documented a harassment rate of 73 percent among women and 22 percent among men responding. The effect of harassment on the two sexes differed, however; more than 50 percent of the men alleging harassment, as compared with only 13 percent of the women, thought that there were no negative effects. There . . .