title: [Professional prestige and gender--clinical scientific staff in Copenhagen as an example].
abstract: At the clinical medical departments of The University of Copenhagen only 5% of the clinical professors and 18% of the associate professors were women in 1995. Among the other categories of the scientific staff, e.g. assistant professors, 34% were women. There was also an uneven distribution of women among the specialties, ranging from 0% women on the scientific staff of the ear, nose and throat specialty to 75% in geriatrics. Based on a ranking scale for the medical specialties constructed by Album (9), the study shows that the percentage of women within a specialty is negatively correlated to the prestige of the specialty. On Album's scale ranging from 1 (highest) to 22 (lowest) the specialties of the female professors had a mean ranking of 18.5 compared to 12.6 for the male professors. The mean ranking for the associate professors was 15.0 for the women compared to 8.8 for the men.
authors.affiliation: Afdeling for teoretisk statistik, Københavns Universitet.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Henningsen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Colding
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003718:Denmark; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D010820:Physicians; D010822:Physicians, Women; D012106:Research; D012577:Schools, Medical; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012737:Sex Factors; D013038:Specialization