Background: Significant gender disparity exists in orthopaedic surgery. While women have
increasingly entered the field, we are short of the critical mass needed to drive change …

Background The term glass ceiling coined by Loden in 1978 is commonly used to describe
difficulties faced by minorities and women when trying to move into senior roles. Objective …

Background. In the United States, only 13% of transplant surgeons are women. We
evaluated gender distribution and trends of American authorship over the past 10 y in high …

Purpose: Previous work in urology has shown that men have higher h-indices than women.
However, the degree to which h-indices vary by gender within urological subspecialties has …

Purpose: Gender equity is a key performance metric in research, including systematic
reviews, and is increasingly noted in publications. We performed this study to assess gender …

BACKGROUND The peer review system is vital to the editing and publishing of high-quality
manuscripts that collectively make up the scientific literature. The reliability of peer review …

Background: The evolution of female authorship in orthopaedic journals is reportedly rising,
however, trends in pediatric orthopaedic publications have not been specifically studied …

Objective To characterize academic productivity for underrepresented minorities (URMs) vs
non-URMs and by gender in Urology. Methods A database was created from 145 Urology …

Results The analysis of 398 responses revealed that urological colleagues in private
practice were less likely to be female (23.6%) and significantly older (mean age 53 years) …

Sex and gender are fundamental aspects of health and wellbeing. Yet many research
studies fail to consider sex or gender differences, and even when they do this is often limited …