Association of Women Psychiatrists

A Voice for Women in Psychiatry

Fall 2001

Dear Colleague:

Thank you for stopping by our website. Let me give you a little information about AWP. I hope you will join us!

Being organizationally separate gives us the resources and the freedom to develop our own agenda. We mentor medical students, residents and practicing psychiatrists at all stages of our careers. We give awards to celebrate their accomplishments. We publish a directory so that we can contact each other and refer those patients who request a female psychiatrist. We publish an informative newsletter for Women in Psychiatry. This year, we have expanded considerable energy successfully organizing ourselves from a grassroots to a solid, effective organization with a permanent staff.

At the same time, we work closely with APA. In order to integrate our work, and to streamline your meeting-going life, we combined the meetings of the APA Women's Caucus and the AWP at the Annual Meetings. We have been able to organize meetings of women psychiatric leaders with the current elected and staff leadership of the APA. We have established the first APA award/lectureship to be named after a woman psychiatrist. We are the source of important data about the status of women in our organization; it is we who have followed representation of women on APA components and in elected positions. And the picture does not look good; as in most professions, the numbers have not kept pace with our presence and work in the field. Talented and accomplished women are not always in the power network. The visibility and activity of AWP keep these issues visible.

972-686-6522 * Fax 972-613-5532 * Email womenpsych@aol.com