Gender distribution in psychiatry journals' editorial boards worldwide

Hafeez, Dawood M.; Waqas, Ahmed; Majeed, Salman; Sattar, Naveed; Afzal, Khalid I.; Aftab, Zehra; Zeshan, Muhammad; Khosa, Faisal

doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2019.152119

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“…Another study found that women represented only 30.4% of psychiatry Journals' editorial board members [9]. This study found that although women held positions in a lower number of publications, these held equal value in impact factors.…”

Section: Disparity In Academic Rank and Leadership Positions By Gendermentioning

confidence: 63%

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Academic Gender Disparity in Orthopedic Surgery in Canadian Universities

Yue

Khosa

2020

Cureus

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Introduction Academic medicine is notorious for being "male-dominated." We hypothesized that there were significant and quantifiable levels of gender disparity in academic orthopedic surgery, and this article attempts to quantify the extent of the existing disparity. Also, we examined the research productivity of academic faculty in orthopedic surgery and its correlation with academic ranks and leadership positions. Methods Our study design was cross-sectional in nature. We searched the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) to compile a list of medical schools that offer orthopedic surgery training for residency. A total of 713 academic orthopedic surgeons met our inclusion criteria. Of the 713 orthopedic surgeons, 518 had an H-index score available on Elsevier's Scopus (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands). The gender, academic rank, leadership position, and H-index were compared. Data analysis was done with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS; IBM, Armonk, NY). The binomial negative regression was used to compare the average H-index between men and women at each rank. Results Our study results reveal that academic orthopedic surgery in Canada is male-dominated, with men holding 87% of the academic positions. Female academic orthopedic surgeons held lower academic ranks, such as assistant professor or lecturer. Women orthopedic surgeons had lower H-index scores compared to their counterparts in ranks above the assistant professor. Our findings imply that research productivity and the ratio of average H-index scores comparing men to women (HM/HF) grow larger with each academic rank. At a 90% confidence level, women were less likely to hold leadership positions than men at an odds ratio (OR) of 0.52 [90% confidence interval (CI): 0.29-0.925, p: 0.03]. There were no significant differences in Hindex between men and women for departmental leadership positions. Conclusion Women were underrepresented in number, rank, and academic productivity (H-index). We offer possible factors that may have contributed to this finding as well as potential solutions.

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Section: Disparity In Academic Rank and Leadership Positions By Gendermentioning

confidence: 63%

“…Our methodology has been validated in several recent publications. [1][2][3][4][5]9] We obtained a list of orthopedic programs to gather the academic faculty members of each orthopedic department. The Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) website enlists a total of 17 university hospitals that offer orthopedic training programs.…”

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Academic Gender Disparity in Orthopedic Surgery in Canadian Universities

Yue

Khosa

2020

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“…Despite all these efforts, URMs comprise a minority in academic neurology. 9 Studies have highlighted the ethnic and/or gender disparity in faculty ranks including cardiology, 10 emergency medicine, 11 radiation oncology, 12 psychiatry, 13 14 dermatology, 15 gastroenterology, 16 ophthalmology, 17 haematology 18 and medical school faculty. 19 However, the data for neurology are few and limited.…”

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Racial and gender disparities in neurology

Saleem¹,

Sattar

Chaudhary

et al. 2020

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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IntroductionThe USA is a diverse society with representation from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, resulting in under-represented minorities (URMs) in various specialties of medicine. Our objective was to find the statistical ratio of URMs in the academic faculty of neurology.MethodsThis was a retrospective analysis of the American Association of Medical College database. The database covered neurology faculty members from 2006 to 2017.ResultsThis study shows a significant change in racial representation in faculty ranks over the last 12 years. At chairperson rank, white people decreased from 86.4% to 79.8% whereas Asian, Hispanic and multiple races (non-Hispanic) simultaneously increased from 6.4% to 9.3%, 0.9% to 3.1% and 1.8% to 4.7%, respectively. At the professor rank, white people decreased from 87.4% to 81.6%, while Asians and Hispanics increased from 7.1% to 10.5% and from 0.7% to 2.1%, respectively. At the rank of associate professor, white people decreased from 81.1% to 68.3% whereas Asians, Hispanics and unknown races increased from 10.3% to 19.0%, 1.6% to 3.1% and from 2.1% to 3.5%, respectively. For the rank of assistant professor, white people decreased from 64.7% to 56.9% and Asians increased from 20.5% to 25.9%. Gender differences (men vs women) for the ranks of chairperson, professor, associate professor, assistant professor and instructors were 90.3% and 9.7%, 83.1% and 16.9%, 67.1% and 32.9%, 56.8% and 43.2%, and 48.1% and 51.9%, respectively.ConclusionOver a period of 12 years the racial proportion in academic neurology has changed, but it is not proportionate to their respective increase in the population of the USA. Moreover, the portion of female faculty increased, but they are still under-represented in leadership roles. This racial and gender disparity can be addressed by well-planned interventions.

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“…Gender bias in editorial boards has been studied in different disciplines, such as science ( Mauleón et al, 2013 ), medicine ( Amrein et al, 2011 ; Hafeez et al, 2019 ), and mathematics ( Topaz and Sen, 2016 ). Nevertheless, editorial board gender equality remains poorly addressed in ecology and biodiversity conservation journals (see Cho et al, 2014 ; Fox et al, 2016 ).…”

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Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals

Liévano‐Latorre

Silva

Vieira

et al. 2020

Biological Conservation

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Women are underrepresented in professional spaces, particularly at leadership positions. In science, the participation in editorial boards of journals is evidence of a high reputation within a specialty or field. Therefore, female presence in editorial boards can be used as a proxy for female presence and leadership in academic spaces. Here, we assessed the gender composition in editorial boards of 31 biodiversity conservation (BC) journals included in the Web of Science and obtained information on current and past editorial boards of these journals. We found pervasive gender bias in the editorial boards of the main scientific BC journals. Current editorial boards were composed of 1251 editors, of which only 28.7% were women. Nevertheless, gender biases are becoming smaller over time. Our projections indicate that BC journals may achieve gender balance in their editorial boards by the year 2038. We argue that a diverse and inclusive editorial board has greater chances to propose innovative solutions to conservation problems . Thus, the academic community, editors and journals must take proactive measures to achieve gender balance. Given that most editors are men, hiring women still depends on them; and these men need urgently to take their share of responsibility and be actors of change. More broadly, journals and science decision-makers must commit to their importance in the movement and start, for example, to hire and support women's work.

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Gender distribution in psychiatry journals' editorial boards worldwide

Cited by 62 publications

References 21 publications

Academic Gender Disparity in Orthopedic Surgery in Canadian Universities

Academic Gender Disparity in Orthopedic Surgery in Canadian Universities

Racial and gender disparities in neurology

Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals

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