Abstract WP47: An Investigation On First Author Gender Disparities In Stroke-related Randomized Controlled Trials
| Autor: | Bharat Rawlley, Sarah Marchina, Stefanie P Cappucci, Sandeep KUMAR |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Stroke. 53 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4628 0039-2499 |
| Popis: | Introduction: While the number of women in medicine and neurology is increasing, there remains a significant gender gap in academic neurology, especially, in the subspecialty of vascular neurology. This study aims to quantify gender differences and examine trends in primary authorship of stroke randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published over the last decade as a proxy for academic leadership. Methods: The PubMed database was searched using pre-defined keywords relevant to ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke filtered by title and article type RCT from 2011 to 2020. EasyPubMed package in R was used for the search. The gender of first authors was determined using the gender package in R, which identifies gender using historical data. Only predictions with an accuracy of ≥ 0.8 for the associated gender were considered, remaining genders were determined by manual search. Results: The query identified 657 RCTs published from 2011 to 2020. Amongst these, we were able to identify the gender of primary authors of 587 (89%) RCTs. Of the 587 RCTs, 205 (35%) had females as primary authors of which 184 (90%) had unique first names. Amongst the 382 male authors, 330 (86%) had unique first names. The mean (SD) percentage of female and male first authors was 31.05 (5.91) and 58.05 (7.21), respectively. Figure 1 demonstrates the annual proportions of both genders over the past decade. The Cox and Stuart trend test did not show any trend in the percentage of female or male authors over the course of 10 years [p values (2-tailed) = 0.36, 0.85, respectively]. Conclusions: Our results highlight the persistence of the gender gap in primary authorship of Stroke RCTs. Despite increased calls for greater representation of women in leadership roles, our data shows a lack of favorable trend towards gender parity in primary authorship. This emphasizes the need for further scrutiny of barriers contributing to this disparity and efforts to promote women as leaders in academic neurology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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