To the Editor, The Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) Honour Award recipients for
2018 were announced on 8 March, International Women's Day. The recipients are all …

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 …

As the authors of this volume settled in to write their chapters in the last quarter of 2017, the
situation for women in the world was unfolding, perhaps as never before. Women are …

To the Editor, Editorial board membership is prestigious in academic medicine. The National
Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine has called for ''reasonable representation of …

In recent years, our society has increasingly confronted inequities faced by members of
marginalized and disempowered groups. Gender bias has become an important topic of …

Women are well represented in medical schools 1 and increasingly so in academic
medicine. 2 Nevertheless, there remains a significant gap in the representation of women as …

Gender inequity in medicine is a global issue, and is most evident in women's under-
representation in leadership roles, promotions, and awards. 1 Literature from highincome …

Women in anaesthesiadthey have always been there, as patients (Sir James Young
Simpson's use of chloroform for childbirth in the mid-19th century) and anaesthetists …

BACKGROUND: Gender inequity is still prevalent in today's medical workforce. Previous
studies have investigated the status of women in academic anesthesiology. The objective of …

BACKGROUND: The number of women in medicine has increased steadily in the last half
century. In this study, we reassessed the status of women in academic anesthesiology …