A Quantitative Analysis Investigating the Prevalence of “Manels” in Major Urology Meetings

Teoh, Jeremy Yuen‐Chun; Castellani, Daniele; Mercader, Claudia; Sierra, Alba; Heldwein, Flávio Lobo; Chan, Erica On-Ting; Wroclawski, Marcelo Langer; Sepúlveda, Fábio; Cacciamani, Giovanni; Rivas, Juan Gómez; Murphy, Declan; Oort, Inge M. van; Loeb, Stacy; Ribal, María J.

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2021.05.031

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“…Graduate medical trainees often ask us whether they should pay their student loans off slowly or quickly upon completion of their training. Regardless of what might make the most "financial sense," both this study and another 1 have demonstrated an association between educational debt and burnout. One could argue that the psychological benefit of paying down educational debt is worth more than what one could theoretically earn by investing that money elsewhere.…”

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“…The authors also make a compelling case that women and minority urologists disproportionately hold increased debt, implying that were educational debt decreased barriers to entry into the field might be decreased as well. Our field continues to struggle with representation, 1,2 and given that patient outcomes and perceptions of their care can be shaped by demographic concordance with their physicians, 3 one could therefore also argue that decreased practitioner debt and increased diversity would be advantageous for society at large.…”

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“…Recently, many senior urologists have called out ‘manels’ ( ie all‐male representation) and demanded fair female representation at conferences. A recent European Urology review found 63.5% of 285 meeting sessions were manels, with the faculty overall being 87% male 13 …”

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“…A recent European Urology review found 63.5% of 285 meeting sessions were manels, with the faculty overall being 87% male. 13…”

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Women in urology: breaking down the barriers

Solomon

Reeves

Challacombe

2023

Trends Urol & Men's Health

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“…This pattern of findings suggests that programs which support and uplift the work of gender minorities, combined with individual efforts to deeply engage with science beyond one's own network, could be effective methods for mitigating the worsening citation imbalance over time. In neuroscience, organizations tracking and prioritizing the representation of historically excluded groups in talks and conferences such as BiasWatchNeuro (biaswatchneuro.com) and the Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience seminar series (innovatorsincogneuro.github.io/) exist to counter the dominance of men in speaking opportunities in STEM fields [45,46].…”

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Modeling observed gender imbalances in academic citation practices

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Bertolero³

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In multiple academic disciplines, having a perceived gender of 'woman' is associated with a lower than expected rate of citations. In some fields, that disparity is driven primarily by the citations of men and is increasing over time despite increasing diversification of the profession. It is likely that complex social interactions and individual ideologies shape these disparities. Computational models of select factors that reproduce empirical observations can help us understand some of the minimal driving forces behind these complex phenomena and therefore aid in their mitigation. Here, we present a simple agent-based model of citation practices within academia, in which academics generate citations based on three factors: their estimate of the collaborative network of the field (i.e., their understanding of who is in the field and with whom those people collaborate), how they sample that estimate, and how open they are to learning about their field from other academics. We show that increasing homophily-or the tendency of people to interact with others more like themselves-in these three domains is sufficient to reproduce observed biases in citation practices. We find that independent sources of homophily control the static and time-varying aspects of citation bias. More specifically, homophily in sampling an estimate of the field influences total citation rates, and openness to learning from new and unfamiliar authors influences the change in those citations over time. We next model a real-world intervention-the citation diversity statement-which has the potential to influence both of these parameters. We determine a parameterization of our model that matches the citation practices of academics who use the citation diversity statement. This parameterization paired with an openness to learning from many new authors can result in citation practices that are equitable and stable over time. Ultimately, our work underscores the importance of homophily in shaping citation practices and provides evidence that specific actions may mitigate biased citation practices in academia.

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A Quantitative Analysis Investigating the Prevalence of “Manels” in Major Urology Meetings

Cited by 41 publications

References 19 publications

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Women in urology: breaking down the barriers

Modeling observed gender imbalances in academic citation practices

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