Background: Historically in medicine, women and minorities have been underrepresented.
This trend is especially significant in the anesthesiology workforce. Objective: The goals of …

Despite an increase in the proportion of women anaesthesiologists over time, women
remain under-represented in academic and leadership positions, honour awards, and …

Background Speaking invitations are used by faculty promotion committees as evidence of
external recognition. However, women are underrepresented as speakers at specialty …

Background Women are disproportionately underrepresented in American academic
surgery and surgical society leadership; we investigated the proportion of speaking roles …

Introduction Discrimination toward sex and gender minority anesthesiologists and
anesthesia trainees exists. Potential reasons for this discrimination are unclear and …

More than 50% of medical students and 45% of practising doctors are female in the UK. In
the specialty of anaesthesia, 32% of consultants are female. However, compared with …

Background: Gender-related differences have been found among invited speakers in select
professional and medical societies. We examined whether similar disparities existed among …

Purpose Females remain under-represented in academic anesthesiology. Our objectives
were to investigate gender differences over time in the first and last authors of published …

Background Increased attention has been dedicated to gender inequity at scientific
meetings. This study evaluated the gender distribution of session leaders at cardiothoracic …

To the Editor, Historically, men have served in the vast majority of leadership positions in
medical societies, including those in anesthesiology. Despite increases in the number of …