The progress of women in academic psychiatry depends in part on the
social and institutionalized administrative patterns expressed through
faculty attitudes, hiring practices, and other conditions of the field as
they are currently structured. As the numbers of women increase, their
specialness will decrease, and accommodations to particular needs and
variations may become accepted as part of the system. This success in
modifying the system will be self-perpetuating, proportional, and
appropriate, leading to more participation of women in academic
psychiatry.Abstract Teaser