Dr. Cordelia Carter is the Director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center and the Pediatric Sports Medicine Program at NYU School of Medicine, NYU-Langone Medical Center.
She is a Team Physician for the National Women’s Hockey League and the US Ski and Snowboard team. Dr. Carter will be an upcoming president of the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine society, and she has numerous research publications across a variety of topics.
Dr. Carter volunteers with the Perry Initiative, a program designed to build up the pipeline of women in engineering and medicine. Cordelia has also coached multiple youth sports teams, believing in the benefits of the team approach.
After medical school at Yale, Dr. Carter completed her orthopedic residency at New York-Presbyterian followed by a pediatric fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and a sports fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Cordelia’s path was not direct to medical school after she graduated with her Bachelor’s in Behavioral Neuroscience from Yale University. Rather, facing the loss of her mom, who died when Cordelia was 19 years old, Cordelia moved to Japan and spent time as a middle school science teacher at the American School in Tokyo where she also coached a variety of sports.
We talk about:
- The hidden benefits in a circuitous career path
- Being purposefully inclusive in the profession, panels, and research projects
- Discovering how perfectionism works against you and fighting against that
Click here for links to Dr. Carter’s articles on abstract submission and acceptance rates by gender at a national orthopedic conference:
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One of the things we talked about on today’s podcast episode was all the ways gender inequality presents itself in the professional workplace. Here is where I fell down the internet rabbit hole finding all sorts of interesting articles and information on gender inequality in the workplace. Feel free to click around on anything that looks interesting. I may have to make this a topic in an upcoming newsletter (ahem, click the link below or go here to make sure you don’t miss it)!
Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified: Quick read/interpretation on the oft-cited Hewlett Packard internal report… which I cannot find anywhere! This internal report is referenced all over the internet and I cannot find the original document. Hmm. My research brain says you must take this with a grain of salt, or please share the goods if you have this report!
McKinsey Report on Women in the Workplace, 2020: McKinsey’s blog post summarizing their 63-page report put together in conjunction with LeanIn.org. Quick summaries with graphical representation. Discusses gender, parental status, and race.
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion: Interview with Christine Exley, co-author of a recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, that gives a quick read on their findings.
The Confidence Gap: Thoughtful long read piece in The Atlantic by the authors of The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know. Shares info about the science of confidence and the confidence gap while acknowledging the catch-22 of how a woman with high levels of confidence can also have negative impacts to how she is perceived.
[Seriously. All this right here is why I created Madam Athlete in the first place! Stick around friends. Let’s build this up together!]
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