Gender-Specific Attitudes of Internal Medicine Residents Toward Gastroenterology

Changing Faces of Authorship: A Study of Gender, Race, Regional Disparities in Gastroenterology/Hepatology-related RCTs. A Two Decade Analysis (2000-2022)

“…Similarly, in an analysis of 73 US gastroenterology fellowship programs, Sethi et al [12] demonstrated that female leadership as the program director and gastroenterology division chief was associated with increased female fellows and female program directors, respectively. Furthermore, a recent survey of gastroenterology fellows by David et al [32] and Advani et al [16] showed that female fellows perceived the absence of same-sex mentors as gender bias in the workplace which was a significant deterrent for them to pursue a career in advanced endoscopy or gastroenterology in general. In another survey of foundation doctors, gender disparity in gastroenterology itself was cited as a deterrent to selecting gastroenterology as a speciality [33].…”

“…The underrepresentation of females in gastroenterology and hepatology has been attributed to personal choice [15], lack of female role models or mentors [16], gender bias at the workplace [16,17], and most commonly to the challenges in balancing work-life commitments such as the overlap of fellowship years with planned parenthood, long work week, and frequent night calls [4,16,18,19]. For instance, Singh et al [20] demonstrated that after ten years of clinical practice, female gastroenterologists have fewer children, are paid 22% less, and hold fewer leadership positions than their male counterparts.…”

Editorial: Women in gastrointestinal and hepatic pharmacology 2022

“…Women representation has increased, but recent reports still show gender disparity favoring men in numbers (gastroenterology remains within the top 10 for male-dominated physician specialties; AMMC, 2021 ), salary, and leadership positions in both clinical and academic settings, irrespective of geographic area ( Chua et al, 2021 ; Sethi et al, 2022 ; Kedia et al, 2023 ). Despite an early similar degree of interest as males, females perceive greater gender-based barriers to full development of a gastroenterology career as early as during their internal medicine residency ( Advani et al, 2022 ). Barriers include family planning (such as concerns regarding fertility and radiation exposure, which impact subspecialties like advanced endoscopy), future work-life balance (stress, burnout), workplace hostility (less salary, less respect, unfair treatment), and perceived lack of female mentors/role models/sponsors leading to feeling “a lack of success,” which perpetuates further underrepresentation of women ( Chua et al, 2021 ; Jamorabo et al, 2021 ; Advani et al, 2022 ; Rabinowitz, 2022 ).…”

“…Despite an early similar degree of interest as males, females perceive greater gender-based barriers to full development of a gastroenterology career as early as during their internal medicine residency ( Advani et al, 2022 ). Barriers include family planning (such as concerns regarding fertility and radiation exposure, which impact subspecialties like advanced endoscopy), future work-life balance (stress, burnout), workplace hostility (less salary, less respect, unfair treatment), and perceived lack of female mentors/role models/sponsors leading to feeling “a lack of success,” which perpetuates further underrepresentation of women ( Chua et al, 2021 ; Jamorabo et al, 2021 ; Advani et al, 2022 ; Rabinowitz, 2022 ).…”