Gender Disparity in Surgical Society Leadership and Annual Meeting Programs
| Autor: | Amber W. Trickey, Adithi A. Tirumalai, Nicolas B. Barreto, Kara A. Rothenberg, Elizabeth L. George, Shipra Arya, Aditi Kashikar, Ashley H. Langston |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gerontology
Gender Equity Male Gender equity education Sexism Logistic regression Representation (politics) Specialties Surgical 03 medical and health sciences Physicians Women 0302 clinical medicine Humans Gender disparity Societies Medical Gender distribution Executive leadership Congresses as Topic Moderation Surgical training United States Leadership Logistic Models 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Surgery Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of surgical research. 266 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8673 |
| Popis: | Prior work suggests women surgical role models attract more female medical students into surgical training. We investigate recent trends of women in surgical society leadership and national conference moderator and plenary speaker roles.Gender distribution was surveyed at 15 major surgical societies and 14 conferences from 2014 to 2018 using publicly reported data. Roles were categorized as leadership (executive council), moderator, or plenary speaker. Data were cross-checked from online profiles and by contacting societies. Logistic regression with Huber-White clustering by society was utilized to evaluate proportions of women in each role over time and determine associations between the proportion of women in executive leadership, and scientific session moderators and plenary speakers.The proportion of leadership positions held by women increased slightly from 2014 to 2018 (20.6%-26.6%, P = 0.23), as did the proportion of moderators (26.2%-30.6%, P = 0.027) and plenary speakers (26.2%-30.9%, P = 0.058). The proportion of women in each role varied significantly across societies (all P0.001): leaders (range 0.0%-52.0%), moderators (12.5%-58.8%), and plenary speakers (11.3%-60.0%). Three patterns of change were observed: eight societies (53.3%) demonstrated increases in representation of women over time, four societies (26.6%) showed stable moderate-to-good gender balance, and three societies (20.0%) had consistent underrepresentation of women.There is significant variability in the representation of women at the leadership level of national surgical societies and participating at national surgical conferences as moderators and plenary speakers. Over the past 5 years some societies have achieved advances in gender equity, but many societies still have substantial room for improvement. |
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