Underrepresented Voices

Abstract Many female and underrepresented minority teaching attendings often face harassment, discrimination, and unconscious bias from both patients and other care team members. To prepare this chapter, the authors interviewed and observed female attendings to learn ways that they navigate gender-based challenges in the hospital. Numerous methods are shared, including consistently wearing a white coat to visually cue others that they are the attendings as well as verbally stating the roles of individuals on the team, and more. Racial minority-based challenges, while unique, share similarities to the challenges faced by female attendings, and navigation strategies are shared in this chapter.