In this issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the article by Soletti and colleagues 1
reports findings of an exhaustive search for women leadership in cardiac surgery …

Surgery, between 2010 and 2021. During the last decade, 16.7% of articles were first
authored by women, and 8.1% were senior authored by women. Papageorge and …

“Yet” is the difference between being defeated by what is at present and understanding that
there is more to come. Compare “This doesn't work” with “This doesn't work, yet.” Bryan and …

Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Soletti and colleagues 1 reported on their systematic literature
review of all adult cardiac surgery randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to evaluate trends in …

The year 2017 was monumental for women in medicine. For the first time in history, women
comprised more than 50% of medical school matriculates and 41% of general surgery …

evaluating gender-related trends in scholarly authorship among cardiothoracic surgeons.
Over a 10-year period from 2011 to 2020, the authors evaluated first and last authorship by …

Objective In recent years, the historically low proportion of women cardiothoracic surgeons
and trainees has been a subject of intense focus. Publications remain a key metric of …

Despite the well-known and previously discussed need for an increase in the female
cardiothoracic surgeon presence in the field, the reality of female representation does not …

Methods This study was a cross-sectional analysis of invited commentaries published within
1 year (2021) by the 3 highest-impact cardiothoracic surgery journals according to Clarivate …

“When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women judges on the US Supreme
Court bench] and I say,'When there are nine,'people are shocked. But there'd been nine …