Women in interventional radiology: insights into Australia's gender gap

Is Empowerment of Female Radiologists Still Needed? Findings of a Systematic Review

“…All included articles were written in English and published between 1989 and 2020 [ 6 , 7 , 11 , 12 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 121 , <...>…”

“…Five articles were published in Canada [ 86 , 98 , 99 , 111 , 126 ] and two in France [ 76 , 109 ]. One article was an international multicenter study [ 118 ], and two resulted from a collaboration between Australia and Ireland [ 89 ] and Vietnam and Malaysia [ 12 ], respectively. One article each was published in Italy [ 101 ], Switzerland [ 78 ], Saudi Arabia [ 72 ], the United Kingdom [ 120 ], and South Korea [ 125 ].…”

“…Mentorship was addressed in several studies [ 73 , 81 , 86 , 88 , 89 , 91 , 106 , 115 , 126 ]. Three articles noted that women with a mentor were underrepresented (range for women: 0–40.3%; range for men: 23.3–64%) [ 72 , 78 , 118 ].…”

“…Fifty-two articles (85.2%) fulfilled at least four of the quality appraisal criteria [7,11,12,71,72,75,76,[78][79][80][81][82]84,[86][87][88][89][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][121][122][123][124][125][126][127] (see Supplementary Table S2).…”

Commentary on “Vascular and Interventional Radiology Training: International Perspectives and Challenges”

“…In one study from Australia a survey was sent to junior doctors before commencing specialist training. Women were much less likely to choose a career in IR than men (13.1% vs 29.7%, p \ 0.001) [5]. The latter finding is despite receiving the same exposure and to IR (which was poor overall).…”