How can we get more women into leadership roles? Here are the top conversations this week
Welcome back to Path to Recovery, a newsletter that will bring you weekly conversations on how the health care profession will recover from one of the most significant crises of our time. Click "subscribe" above or follow along using #PathtoRecovery.
Here’s what we’re talking about this week.
#WorldNews The war in Ukraine has dominated the headlines this week, and health care leaders around the world have been speaking out against the violence, much of which has devastated civilian areas, including health care facilities.
HLTH, which runs an eponymous conference each year on health care innovation, held a webinar earlier today on how organizations can help get pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies to Ukraine. More information and a replay is available here .
Our news team is continuing to follow this developing situation, and you can find our coverage in the news module on the right-hand side of your homepage, as well as by following the LinkedIn News page .
#MentalHealth Behavioral health has long been an overlooked, and siloed, area of the health care landscape. But rising rates of mental health conditions, which the pandemic has only exacerbated, has made it clear that the need for improvement is urgent.
In an interview with LinkedIn , Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, noted that psychiatric disorders are typically treated like infectious diseases — here’s your diagnosis, here’s your pill — when patients often require a unique level of social support to manage their conditions. And it’s one of the failings of the mental health system.
Click below to read the full interview and what mental health professionals are saying about it.
#WomeninHealthcare: Women hold the majority of nursing and pharmacist roles in the U.S. and a growing share of physician roles, making gains in recent years by filling a majority of seats at U.S. medical schools. Yet despite those numbers, the health care industry has the largest gap between the number of women who work in the field and the number of women who hold leadership positions.
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Women held 65% of all positions in health care last year, but only 48% of leadership roles, according to LinkedIn data.?
“One part of the equation is the exposure and the skills needed to advance,” Ashley Schmidt , president and founder of Women in Healthcare, told my colleague Caroline Fairchild. “The other part is the institutional barriers and bias that have existed in health care for many years.”
Why do you think the gap is so stark in the health care profession and what would it take to reach parity? Weigh in below.
#HealthcareRealEstate: A number of years ago, I reported on hospitals and other health care providers moving their clinics away from urban downtowns and into the suburbs, closer to where people live. That trend seems to have accelerated during the pandemic, fueled (as The New York Times reported last week) by lower rents in vacant storefronts. And with more people allowed to work from home, whether full-time or on a hybrid schedule, it makes sense that health care providers would want to make the move with them.
What’s been happening in your area? Tell me in the comments below.
And for next week … #HIMSS22 One of the largest conferences for health care innovation is taking place in less than two weeks in Orlando. What are you watching this year? What trends do you expect to see in the digital health space?
In likelihood, when incorporating the framework of an effective diversity, equity and inclusion strategy in the workplace, visionary health care leaders could reap immeasurable benefits from researching historical employment records when eradicating possible disproportionate institutional barriers denying equitable promotional opportunities to women based on gender, or when finding historical evidence of other systematic practices influencing the biased outcomes of candidate selection for leadership positions. Thank you for bringing a heightened awareness to this important topic.
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2 年How can we get more women into leadership roles? Trust. Someone has to be willing to trust. There are many women out there with great leadership qualities, but the opportunities are rarely offered to them. Another issue is that when women are given the opportunity to lead, sometimes they are expected to lead like men. While men are great leaders in their own way, women can also be individually great leaders in their own way. Trust.