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Table 1 Gender breakdown of key leaders and managers at Charité, Karolinska Institutet, Oxford, and Vienna academic health centres, May 2016 (or latest available)

From: Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union

Centre/enterprise

Top level (boards)

Middle-level (large units)

Lower-level (smaller units)

Charité (Germany)

Supervisory board: chair F, 6 M/6 F (>50% F)

Executive board: chair M, 3 M/1 F (25% F)

Directors of centres: 13 M/4 F (24% F)

Directors of clinics/institutes: 82 M/23 F (22% F)

 Hospital

Senior management team: CEO F, 2 M/2 F (50% F)

  

 Universitya

Faculty board: dean M, 4 M/1 F (20% F)

  

Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) Hospital

Board of directors: chair M, 6 M/5 F (45% F)

Management team: CEO M, 9 M/6 F (40% F)

Chiefs of divisions: 5 M/2 F (29%)

Heads of departments: 36 M/39 F (52% F)

 University

Board: chair M, 9 M/12 F (57% F)

Management team: vice-chancellor F, 3 M/3 F (50% F)

Heads of departments: 16 M/6 F (27% F)

Variety of organisational structure; data not available

Oxford (United Kingdom)

AHSC board: chair M, 4 M/1 F (20% F)

  

 Hospitalb

Board of directors: chair F, CEO M, 12 M/4 F (25% F)

Directors of divisions: 5 M/0 F (0% F)

Clinical directors: 11 M/7 F (39% F)

 University

Chancellor: M

Council: vice-chancellor F, 18 M/8 F (31% F)

Medical sciences board: dean M, 14 M/7 F (33% F)

Medical sciences heads of departments: 15 M/2 F (12% F)

Medical sciences directors of research institutes/centres/units: 18 M/7 F (28% F)

Vienna (Austria)

Supervisory board: chair M, 4 M (0% F)

Management board: 2 M (0% F)

Heads of clinics, clinical institutes, centres, and special institutions: 35 M/8 F (19% F)

Heads of departments and divisions: 67 M/22 F (25% F)

 Hospital

Directors: CEO M, 2 M/3 F (60% F)

  

 University

Senate: chair M, 11 M/16 F (59% F)

Council: chair M, 3 M/2 F (40% F)

Rectorate: rector M, 3 M/2 F (40% F)

  
  1. Source: own calculations based on information from HR Officers, websites, and reports
  2. M male, F female, N/A not available, AHSC Academic Health Science Centre
  3. aSingle medical faculty serving Humboldt Universtität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin
  4. bOxford University Hospitals National Health Service Trust