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Longitudinal Gender Disparity in Female Urology Resident Primary Authorship at an American Urological Association Sectional Meeting.
Lin, Tony R; Kocher, Neil J; Klausner, Adam P; Raman, Jay D.
Afiliação
  • Lin TR; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA.
  • Kocher NJ; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA.
  • Klausner AP; Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
  • Raman JD; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA. Electronic address: jraman@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Urology ; 110: 40-44, 2017 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28842209
OBJECTIVE: To further evaluate the academic representation of female urology residents in the United States, we reviewed abstracts from the Mid-Atlantic American Urological Association (MA-AUA) sectional meetings to determine if the recent increase in the number of female urology residents mirrored an increase in this group's abstract authorship. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Full text abstracts from the MA-AUA meetings were analyzed from 2008 to 2014 excluding 1 joint section meeting. First-author gender was determined by querying publicly available institutional websites, social media platforms, and the U.S. News & World Report. First-author gender was indeterminable in 10 abstracts based on search criteria and these were excluded. Individual abstracts were broadly categorized based on keywords into 1 of several topics. Chi-square statistical tests examined the relationship between first-authorship gender, publication year, and abstract category. RESULTS: The number of female urology residents in the MA-AUA increased over the study period. A total of 484 abstracts were analyzed. Three hundred ninety-three abstracts (81%) included a male first-author, whereas 81 abstracts (17%) included a female first-author. Female first-authorship ranged from 13% to 25% annually. Comparison of male-to-female first-authorship was statistically significant in all years evaluated (P <.001). There was a statistically significant difference between male and female first-authorship in all topic categories (P <.01), except Education/Other (P = .56). CONCLUSION: Despite continued gains and increasing female representation in urology, these data highlight significantly fewer female first-authors at the regional Mid-Atlantic section meetings. Larger studies are necessary to identify contributing factors and further areas for improvement toward decreasing gender imbalances within the academic community.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Médicas / Autoria / Urologia / Internato e Residência Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality Limite: Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Urology Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Médicas / Autoria / Urologia / Internato e Residência Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality Limite: Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Urology Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos