“…Women make up more than half of medical doctors in several countries across the globe including the USA, the UK and Australia. Yet, despite gender equity in medical schools (Jena et al , 2015; Radunz et al , 2020; Sexton et al , 2012; Singh et al , 2020; Silver, 2018 and Silver et al , 2017; Temkin, 2020), there is a disparity in surgery and women remain disproportionally underrepresented in leadership positions in surgical specialties including professors, chairpersons or medical school deans (Battaglia et al , 2020; Burdine et al , 2019; Giuffrida et al , 2020; Keane et al , 2021; Olson, et al , 2021; Mueller, 2016; Sexton, 2012; Skinner et al , 2019; Yin et al , 2021). In the USA, studies have shown that 12% of Professors in academic surgery and 25% of surgical faculty are women (Battaglia et al , 2020).…”