Table 1.

Characteristics of Harvard Medical School Instructors and Assistant Professors in 2008 According to Gender

	Total		Female		Male
	n = 5445		n = 2435		n = 3010
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	p-Value
Network reach	39	196	17	150	61.5	227	<0.0001
h-Index	1	3	1	2	1	3	<0.0001
Publications	4	14	3	10	6	17	<0.0001
Coauthors	2	8	1	6	3	10	<0.0001
Time in rank (years)	4.5	5.8	4.4	6	4.5	6.1	0.2
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Race							0.70
API	1053	19.3	460	18.9	593	19.7
URM	346	6.4	163	6.7	183	6.1
White	3906	71.7	1747	71.8	2159	71.7
Unknown	140	2.6	65	2.7	75	2.5
Age group							<0.0001
<40	963	17.7	497	20.4	466	15.5
40–49	2472	45.4	1108	45.5	1364	45.3
50–59	1279	23.5	595	24.4	684	22.7
≥60	731	13.4	235	9.7	496	16.5
Previous K award	474	8.7	186	7.6	288	9.6	0.01
Rank							<0.0001
Instructor	3611	66.3	1776	72.9	1835	61.0
Assistant professor	1834	33.7	659	27.1	1175	39.0
Work statusa							0.04
Full time	1456	79.4	540	81.9	916	78.0
Part-time	378	20.6	119	18.1	259	22.0
Terminal degree							<0.0001
MD/PhD	389	7.1	110	4.5	279	9.3
MD only	3563	65.4	1622	66.6	1941	64.5
PhD only	1301	23.9	620	25.5	681	22.6
Other Degree/unknown	192	3.5	83	3.4	109	3.6
HMS training	3688	67.7	1640	67.4	2048	68.0	0.59
Discipline							<0.0001
Medicine	1924	35.3	827	34.0	1097	36.5
Neurology	259	4.8	108	4.4	151	5.0
Pathology	167	3.1	83	3.4	84	2.8
Pediatrics	580	10.7	328	13.5	252	8.4
Psychiatry	764	14.0	417	17.1	347	11.5
Radiology	335	6.2	122	5.0	213	7.1
Surgery	399	6.9	120	4.9	265	8.8
Other or unknown	1088	18.9	430	17.7	601	20.0

^aAmong Assistant Professors only.

IQR, interquartile range; API, Asian or Pacific Islander; URM, underrepresented minority; HMS, Harvard Medical School.