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Amtul S Farheen1, Ilena C George1, Divya Singhal1
1From the Lebanon VA Medical Center (A.S.F.), PA; Massachusetts General Hospital (I.C.G.), Boston; University of Oklahoma College of Medicine (D.S.), Oklahoma City; Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (R.M.T., J.S.G.), CA; Drexel University College of Medicine (J.P.), Philadelphia, PA; Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine (L.S.); Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers (L.S.), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto; UCSF Medical Center (C.L.-H.); Department of Neurosciences (J.S.G.), UCSD, San Diego, CA; Imperial College London (S.S.), UK; University of Mississippi Medical Center (C.O.S.N.), Jackson; and Penn State Hershey Medical Center (A.S.F.).
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The American Academy of Neurology's (AAN) 2017 Gender Disparity Report identified improving mentorship as a key intervention to fill the leadership and pay gaps for women in neurology. Here we summarize the literature on mentoring women, provide an outline of ideal components of programs geared toward closing gender gaps, and present a mentoring program for AAN members. The strategies discussed share similarities with those for closing gaps related to race, ethnicity, and religion. Developing effective mentorship and sponsorship programs is essential to ensure a sufficiently diverse pool of academic faculty and private practitioners and to establish equal representation in leadership roles in this field.
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