Becker's Healthcare December 4, 2019
Despite making up more than half of the healthcare workforce, women are vastly underrepresented in leadership roles in the industry, with the digital health sector most lacking in gender parity, according to a new Rock Health report.
In 2019, women made up about 37 percent of the executives at the nation’s 100 largest hospitals and 24 percent of executives and 26 percent of board members at Fortune 500 healthcare companies, per the report, but fewer than 13 percent of partners at venture funds active in digital health are women. Additionally, women-led digital health startups have been involved in only 14 percent of deals closed this year.
Furthermore, each of those rates has moved only incrementally since 2017, according to Rock...