Gender Equity - Strategies & Tools to Level the Playing Field
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This presentation was part of the Executive Council for Education’s 2024 Strategic Issues in Athletic Training District Lecture Series.
Abstract:
Female ATs are represented in all practice settings and throughout healthcare, but glaring equity gaps exist in the workplace. Inequities in salary, leadership positions and promotion for women ATs are well documented. As an example, the salary gap between men and women ATs INCREASED from 2018 to 2021 (NATA 2021 Salary Survey). This session will address recognition of the problem, analysis of underlying mechanisms and proactive measures to overcome them. It will bring awareness to the issues surrounding inequity in the workplace and will provide strategies for all ATs to work together to address them. Resources will be presented to help ATs address equity issues in the job interview process, current employment, and post-employment. Leadership training will be emphasized to empower women with the skills needed to address and achieve workplace equity. Gender inequity is a societal issue and pervasive throughout healthcare. Related literature on this topic specific to women in healthcare will be presented, as well as documentation demonstrating how gender equity enhances patient care. Equity initiatives and policies of other professional societies and associations will be shared to encourage collaboration on the state, regional and national levels.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the underlying mechanisms of gender inequity.
- List the ways to identify gender inequity in the workplace.
- Develop an effective plan to address gender inequity in their individual workplace.
- Identify how gender equity enhances patient care.
- Develop a plan to collaborate with other healthcare professionals/societies to address/create Gender Equity Policy Statements.
Level:
Advanced
Domain(s):
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
CEUs:
0.50 Category A
Keywords: pay gap, gender equity, salary, promotion
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Marjorie J. Albohm, MS, AT-Ret
Ms. Albohm was one of the first women certified athletic trainers in the nation. She began her career as the first full time female athletic trainer at Indiana University. Marje is a proud 52 year member of the NATA. She has held various positions of leadership in the NATA throughout her career including President of the NATA Research and Education Foundation and the 11th President of the NATA from 2008-2012. She has received numerous NATA and related awards and was a 1999 inductee into the NATA Hall of Fame.
As an athletic trainer, Ms. Albohm served in key positions on medical staffs for multiple national and international sporting events, including track and field and swimming Olympic Trials, the Pan American Games, Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games and the Atlanta Olympic Games. She currently serves on the Gender Equity sub-group of the NATA Compensation Task Force and is a Commissioner on the CAATE. She received her BS from Valparaiso University and her MS from Indiana State University. She resides in Charleston SC.
Rebecca Lopez, PhD, LAT, ATC
Dr. Rebecca M. Lopez is a Professor in the Athletic Training Program at the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine and a Fellow of NATA. Dr. Lopez is currently serving as an Assistant School Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences at USF. She also serves as Co-Chair of NATA’s DEIA Task Force. Through her leadership as a Co-Chair of this task force, she has been working to ensure the profession of athletic training continues to grow as health care providers by embracing diversity, cultivating an inclusive and welcoming environment, and reducing the health and health care disparities of underrepresented groups.
Research interests include exertional heat stroke and other exertional heat illnesses, cooling methods for hyperthermic athletes, ergogenic aids and thermoregulation, hydration and exercise performance, exercise heat tolerance issues with American football uniforms, sickle cell trait & the athlete, preventing sudden death in sport, return to activity following heat stroke, youth sports injury, and diversity, equity & inclusion in athletic training.