Disproportionate Participation of Males and Females in Academic Pediatric Orthopaedics: An Analysis of Abstract Authorship at POSNA 2009-2013

Sharkey, Melinda S.; Feinn, Richard; Tate, Victoria; Carter, Cordelia W.; Cassese, Todd

doi:10.1097/bpo.0000000000000456

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“…The finding that women choose academic practice over private practice (in this survey, 13:1) is interesting in light of a recent study by Sharkey et al [12] that found that, when controlled for years of membership, women are less likely to present an abstract at the annual POSNA meeting. This suggests an extraordinary opportunity to develop more women leaders and role models at major pediatric orthopaedic centers.…”

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Gender Differences in Pediatric Orthopaedics: What Are the Implications for the Future Workforce?

Amoli

Flynn

Edmonds

et al. 2016

Clinical Orthopaedics &Amp; Related Research

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Background Although the number of women in surgical specialties has increased dramatically over the past two decades, little research exists regarding how a surgeon's gender impacts job selection and practice models. Because the number of women specializing in pediatric orthopaedics continues to increase, it is important to understand how one's gender affects practice choices and how this may affect the future workforce. Conclusions Although the numbers are small given the specialized nature of pediatric orthopaedic surgery, this study has uncovered some initial gender differences regarding practice characteristics and job opportunities among pediatric orthopaedic surgeons. As more men plan to reduce their workload or retire in the next 5 years, there may be further increases in the percentage of women surgeons in the workforce, so it is important that we begin to understand what effect, if any, gender has on practice patterns, job selection, and opportunities. Also, the finding that among the new graduates more women than men are choosing careers in academic practice over private practice suggests an extraordinary opportunity to develop more female leaders and role models at major pediatric orthopaedic centers.

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confidence: 58%

Gender Differences in Pediatric Orthopaedics: What Are the Implications for the Future Workforce?

Amoli

Flynn

Edmonds

et al. 2016

Clinical Orthopaedics &Amp; Related Research

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“…For example, in the field of orthopedics, a specialty with a large gender gap, Sharkey et al found that female members of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America (POSNA) had significantly fewer accepted abstracts and, therefore, lower academic participation in POSNA annual meetings compared with their male peers, and relative to their proportional representation in membership. 9 Similarly, a recent study found that women are underrepresented as presenters at European neurosurgical society conferences. 10 To our knowledge, the gender diversity of US neurosurgical conference abstract authorship has not been studied in detail.…”

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Representation of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at neurological surgery conferences

Johnson

Almgren-Bell

Skidmore

et al. 2022

Journal of Neurosurgery

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OBJECTIVE Female neurosurgeon representation has increased, but women still represent only 8.4% of neurosurgeons in the US. Women are significantly underrepresented as authors in neurosurgical and spine journals, a key indicator of professional success in academic medicine. In this study, the authors aimed to assess the gender diversity of first and last authors of accepted abstracts at neurosurgical conferences in 2015 and 2019. METHODS Annual meeting abstracts for 2015 and 2019 of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and pediatrics, spine, stereotactic and functional surgery, and cerebrovascular AANS/CNS subspecialty sections were obtained and analyzed for gender. Partial data were obtained for tumor and pain sections. Composite gender data were obtained from the societies. Percentage differences were calculated using comparison of proportions testing. RESULTS Overall, female neurosurgeons accounted for only 8.3% of first and 5.8% of last authors, and 7.2% of authors overall. The pediatrics section had the highest proportion of female neurosurgeons as first (13.7%) and last (12.4%) abstract authors, while the spine section had the lowest proportions of female neurosurgeon first (4.6%) and last (2.0%) authors. Qualitatively, a higher proportion of women were first authors, while a higher proportion of men were last authors. Overall, there was no significant change in female neurosurgeon authorship between 2015 and 2019. With regard to society demographics, female neurosurgeons accounted for only 6.3% of AANS membership. The pediatrics section had the highest proportion of female neurosurgeons at 18.1% and the stereotactic and functional surgery section had the lowest of the subspecialty sections (7.6%). While female neurosurgeons represented 12.6% of spine section membership, they represented only 4.7% of first authors (−7.9% difference; p < 0.0001) and 2.4% of last authors (−10.2% difference; p < 0.0001). For the 2019 cerebrovascular section, female neurosurgeons were underrepresented as presenting authors (5.8%) compared with their membership representation (14.8%, −9.0% difference; p = 0.0018). CONCLUSIONS Despite an increase in the number of female neurosurgeons, there has not been a corresponding increase in the proportion of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at annual neurosurgery conferences, and female neurosurgeons remain underrepresented as authors compared with their male colleagues.

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“…Successful publication is the "true currency" for academic promotion (1-6). There is still a lag, however, in participation of females in abstract authorship at recent POSNA meetings (32). After abstract authorship, the next step is manuscript publication; here the gender gap has been ubiquitously described (40).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…al. (32) noted that females comprised 20.9% of candidate and active members of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA). However, female members presented abstracts at a lower rate than males, suggesting females might be experiencing "barriers to academic participation".…”

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Historical Analysis of Bibliometric Trends in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics With a Particular Focus on Sex

Fischer¹,

Wininger²,

Scofield³

et al. 2018

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

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Disproportionate Participation of Males and Females in Academic Pediatric Orthopaedics: An Analysis of Abstract Authorship at POSNA 2009-2013

Abstract: Female members of POSNA, in the most active part of their careers, participated at significantly lower rates than their male peers as accepted abstract authors for the 2009-2013 POSNA meetings than would be expected for their proportional size of total membership.

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Gender Differences in Pediatric Orthopaedics: What Are the Implications for the Future Workforce?

Gender Differences in Pediatric Orthopaedics: What Are the Implications for the Future Workforce?

Representation of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at neurological surgery conferences

Historical Analysis of Bibliometric Trends in the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics With a Particular Focus on Sex

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