Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Women are disproportionately underrepresented in American academic surgery and surgical society leadership; we investigated the proportion of speaking roles held by women across a wide variety of surgical society meetings. METHODS:Publicly-available data on invited speakers, panelists, and moderators at 23 national surgical societies' annual meetings from 2002 to 2019 were collected. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to evaluate the adjusted trend of gender representation over time for each role. RESULTS:15.9% of invited speakers were women. Adjusted analysis showed an 8% increase in odds of having female speakers per year (OR1.08, p = 0.002, 95%CI 1.03-1.14). 24.4% of moderators and 22.5% of panelists were female; there was increasing trend in adjusted analysis for both moderators (OR1.09, p < 0.001, 95%CI 1.07-1.11) and panelists (OR1.13, p < 0.001, 95%CI 1.11-1.43). CONCLUSIONS:There is a wide range in speaking roles held by women at surgical society meetings, but an encouraging trend towards greater parity was seen overall.
journal_name
Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Lu PW,Atkinson RB,Rouanet E,Cho NL,Melnitchouk N,Kuo LEdoi
10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.12.019subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-12-09 00:00:00eissn
0002-9610issn
1879-1883pii
S0002-9610(20)30797-2pub_type
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