Due to necessary scheduled maintenance, the JMIR Publications website will be unavailable from Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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Gender disparities exist across all facets of academic medicine including within dermatology journal editorial boards. Only 22% of these editorial boards are women even though 51% of full-time, faculty dermatologists are women [1, 2]. When inviting academics to our editorial board at JMIR Dermatology, we invited 50% women to represent the gender distribution of academic dermatologists; however, we have not sufficiently reached gender equity of accepted editorial board members. We will continue to strive toward the goal of gender equity on our editorial board and invite other dermatology journals to do similarly.