The Carol Emmott Foundation is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving fully inclusive gender equity in healthcare leadership and governance.

Equitable, diverse, and fair representation in top leadership positions leads to better performance with higher employee satisfaction and better overall health outcomes1. And yet, although women make up nearly 80% of the health workforce, the numbers dwindle to low double digits in the highest ranks of care2,3. We are taking real steps to realize more equitable leadership of health organizations at both the individual and the system level.

  • how and where diversity drives financial performance

Moving more women into senior leadership positions is a step toward eliminating some of the significant inequities facing women in healthcare and will ultimately help healthcare institutions build more just, diverse, productive, and better performing work environments5,6.

1 How diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) matter | McKinsey • 2 https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2023/healthcare-occupations-in-2022/ • 3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8139257/ • 4 How and Where Diversity Drives Financial Performance (hbr.org) • 5 Women Doctors Are Better For Patients, Study Finds (forbes.com) • 6 Re:think: Improving women’s health could improve the world’s economy (mckinsey.com)

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Collaborative non-profit work on Gender Equity

By Douglas Riddle, Chief Impact Officer, The Carol Emmott Foundation and Gayle Capozzalo, Executive Director of the Collaborative, The Carol Emmott Foundation There have been times when policy and practice in healthcare were driving toward fair and inclusive organizational structures. In the United States of America any such momentum has stalled. In the last two years we’ve seen a clear decline in women succeeding other women in Chief Executive roles. While women following men in CEO positions remains about 14%, only 1% of hand-offs from women CEOs are other women. Legacy structures and habits reliably return old patterns that perpetuate … Continue reading “Collaborative non-profit work on Gender Equity”

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