The Academic Footprint of Women in Transplantation: Leaky Pipeline Persists

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

“…Nonetheless, the current study confirms the findings of the previous studies on the underrepresentation of senior female authors in gastroenterology and hepatology research publications [5,6,8,9]. The low representation of women in senior academic positions has been attributed to the "leaky pipeline" phenomenon, where fewer women physicians move up the academic hierarchy [34,35,36,37]. However, as argued by Oxentenko et al [38], increasing female representation in the academic pipeline alone may not be effective with the gender parity achieved in medical school enrolments in high research output countries for over a decade [39,40,41].…”

Racial and Gender Disparities and Attrition Rates Within US Abdominal Transplant Surgeons

“…Similar methods were used by previous transplantation publications. [9][10][11][12][13] We assessed attrition and categorized it into 3 groups: those practicing continuously from 2005 to 2022, those who left after 2005, and new entrants in 2022. Attrition rates were stratified by sex and race.…”

“…Nevertheless, this methodology has been used before. 9-13 Additionally, we did not account for nonbinary gender or multiracial identities. Moreover, ASTS does not encompass the entire abdominal transplant surgery workforce and it is unclear how representative the ASTS membership composition is.…”

A Systematic Review of Gender Disparity in the Authorship of Clinical Trials and Clinical Practice Guidelines in Various Medicine Subspecialties

“…Ultimately, this would result in lower promotion odds and arrested career growth, as observed in several studies [16][17][18][19]. The "leaky pipeline" phenomenon in academic medicine has been widely reported [17][18][19], where fewer female researchers move up the academic hierarchy [15][16]. For example, although several Western countries have closed the gender gap in medical school enrolments for over a decade [20][21][22], males were 2.63 times more likely to be full professors in 2010-2020 than females, with similar trends within and outside North America [15].…”

“…Ultimately, this would result in lower promotion odds and arrested career growth, as observed in several studies [16][17][18][19]. The "leaky pipeline" phenomenon in academic medicine has been widely reported [17][18][19], where fewer female researchers move up the academic hierarchy [15][16].…”