APSA Newsletter - Phi Psi » 2008 Fall, Volume 3, No. 2 » Yes SHE can, but...

Yes SHE can, but...

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Jennifer M. Kwan* and Mercedes J. Szpunar†, * APSA Institutional Representative of University of Illinois College of Medicine & † APSA Instituational Representative of University of Rochester, New York

Maybe she doesn’t want to. Maybe she wants something different from her career. Maybe she doesn’t care for leadership positions. Maybe it is too hard to balance family and career responsibilities. Maybe the environment is too unwelcoming. These are just some of the proposed reasons that swirl around the leaky pipeline phenomenon pertaining to women in medicine.