The Role of Gender in Publication in The Journal of Pediatrics 2015-2016: Equal Reviews, Unequal Opportunities

Williams, W. J.; Garvey, Katherine; Goodman, Denise M.; Lauderdale, Diane S.; Ross, Lainie Friedman

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.06.059

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“…In my graduating class, there was only a small handful of women amidst a sea of men. In contrast to my personal experience, in 2015 and 2016, women represented 46.8% of medical students, 45.8% of trainees, and 39.8% of allopathic faculty; in pediatrics, women represented a majority of hospital trainees (71.1%) and allopathic faculty (55.3%; Williams et al, 2018).…”

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“…Reviewing journal articles affords us invaluable experience, networking, and prestige that is required for promotion. Therefore, the discrepancy revealed by this recent article in the Journal of Pediatrics (Williams et al, 2018) is important. Of note and of great importance, the authors found that women must take some responsibility for their underrepresentation; women received 40.7% of invitations to review but only completed 37.4% of reviews (Williams et al, 2018).…”

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“…A group of authors from the University of Chicago recently published an article entitled “The role of gender in publication in the Journal of Pediatrics 2015-2016: Equal reviews, unequal opportunities” (Williams et al, 2018). It is hard to believe that in 2019, we still need to discuss sex disparities in medicine.…”

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“…Diversity in global health workforce and leadership has received a lot of attention, particularly in terms of gender and representation of low/middle-income countries in global health institutions like the WHO 1–4. Representation of women in medical journals has been studied extensively including for authorship, peer-reviewers and editorial positions in several medical specialities,5–14 with only a few studies analysing geographical diversity 15 16. Although many journals champion diversity narratives in several domains of global health,17–19 the issue of diversity in specialty global health journals has not been studied previously.…”

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“…In a review of more than 3700 manuscripts from 2015 to 2016 published in the Journal of Pediatrics, Williams et al found that there were no gender differences in editor or review assignments by gender. 11 Yet female editors had a lower acceptance rate overall, women were less likely to accept and complete invitations for peer review, and women wrote fewer editorialsfindings that raise new questions that require investigation.…”

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Understanding the contribution of gender bias in academic productivity, which includes publications, editorial positions, invited editorials, peer-review appointments, and more, is critical. Significant improvements in the representation of women in the medical student body and among trainees in pediatrics have not been matched with improved rates of academic advancement. In 2015, data from the Association of American Medical Colleges showed that 71% of residents and 55% of pediatric faculty were women, yet only 33% were full professors and only 19% of chairs of pediatric departments were women. 1 Advancement in academics requires success in academic contributions through first and senior peer-reviewed publications, opportunities to participate in peer-review, invited editorials, and positions on editorial boards. Moreover, participation in such activities is a critical way to influence the direction of research in a field, and considerable evidence suggests that inclusion of diversity of viewpoints enriches the quality of scholarship. 2 Considering these issues, we read with interest the analysis by Bearer and Molloy, investigating gender bias in article acceptance rates in Pediatric Research during the period 1 November 2017 and 9 August 2018. 3 The authors found no differences in acceptance rates based on gender during this 10-month period in this unadjusted simple chi-squared bivariable analysis. Yet, while the conclusions from this report are reassuring, the period of the study is modest. It would be interesting to assess how other factors that differ by gender, such as academic rank, influenced acceptance rates. We also need to be cognizant that there are very few singleauthor reports these days and many publications include female and male authors, a challenging factor for studies of gender on acceptance rates. Thus, a first glance at gender of corresponding authors alone may not fully address the possible biases that may still exist in the peer-review process. In reality, progress in academic representation for women has been slow. A 35-year review of the gender gap in academic medical literature revealed that the representation of women increased over time, but women have continued to constitute only a minority of authors of original research and even smaller minority of editorial board members in journals from the field of pediatrics well after women constituted a substantial proportion of medical students and majority of pediatrics residents. 4,5 In addition, an analysis of women's authorship of perspective-type articles in four pediatrics journals raised concerns after finding that between 2013 and 2017, women constituted only 41.7% of the physician first authors of known gender. 6 Increasing efforts of editorial boards to investigate gender bias in publication acceptance rates is important and increasingly advocated in academia. Considering the abundance of evidence

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The Role of Gender in Publication in The Journal of Pediatrics 2015-2016: Equal Reviews, Unequal Opportunities

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

Does gender impact publication opportunities?

Does gender impact publication opportunities?

Diversity in the editorial boards of global health journals

An unbiased view about bias: Not yet

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