TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender representation among speaking and leader roles at European cardio-thoracic surgical annual meetings
AU - Galeone, Antonella
AU - Bernabei, Annalisa
AU - Cleuziou, Julie
AU - Menezes, Vanessa
AU - Park, Samina
AU - Kluin, Jolanda
AU - Pompili, Cecilia
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024/3/1
Y1 - 2024/3/1
N2 - OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to evaluate gender representation among session leaders and abstract presenters at European cardiothoracic surgical annual meetings. METHODS: We did a descriptive study of the gender distribution among session leaders and abstract presenters at 2 European cardiothoracic international meetings from 2017 to 2022. Data from publicly available programmes were used to generate a list of session leaders and abstract presenters. The primary outcome was to evaluate the proportion of female sessions leaders at the annual meetings. Descriptive analyses were performed including the Cochran-Armitage trend test for linear trend of proportions. RESULTS: A total of 1025 sessions of 11 annual meetings of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons were examined. A total of 397 (13.2%) out of 3007 total session leaders and 955 (15.2%) out of 6251 abstract presenters were female. From 2017 to 2022, the proportions of both female session leaders and abstract presenters trended significantly [10.4% to 21.9% (P<0.001) and 13.7% to 18.3% (P<0.001), respectively]. The EACTS female members and female meeting attendees significantly increased from 2017 to 2022 [11.1% to 15.9% (P<0.001) and 23.7% to 26.9% (P<0.001)], respectively. Most of the women attendees at the EACTS and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons meetings who were session leaders and speakers came from Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. CONCLUSIONS: Women are under-represented compared to men in leadership and speaking roles at European cardio-thoracic surgical annual meetings. In the past few years, an encouraging positive trend over time for female leadership roles has been noted; as a result, the proportion of female society members is represented at the annual meetings.
AB - OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to evaluate gender representation among session leaders and abstract presenters at European cardiothoracic surgical annual meetings. METHODS: We did a descriptive study of the gender distribution among session leaders and abstract presenters at 2 European cardiothoracic international meetings from 2017 to 2022. Data from publicly available programmes were used to generate a list of session leaders and abstract presenters. The primary outcome was to evaluate the proportion of female sessions leaders at the annual meetings. Descriptive analyses were performed including the Cochran-Armitage trend test for linear trend of proportions. RESULTS: A total of 1025 sessions of 11 annual meetings of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons were examined. A total of 397 (13.2%) out of 3007 total session leaders and 955 (15.2%) out of 6251 abstract presenters were female. From 2017 to 2022, the proportions of both female session leaders and abstract presenters trended significantly [10.4% to 21.9% (P<0.001) and 13.7% to 18.3% (P<0.001), respectively]. The EACTS female members and female meeting attendees significantly increased from 2017 to 2022 [11.1% to 15.9% (P<0.001) and 23.7% to 26.9% (P<0.001)], respectively. Most of the women attendees at the EACTS and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons meetings who were session leaders and speakers came from Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. CONCLUSIONS: Women are under-represented compared to men in leadership and speaking roles at European cardio-thoracic surgical annual meetings. In the past few years, an encouraging positive trend over time for female leadership roles has been noted; as a result, the proportion of female society members is represented at the annual meetings.
KW - cardio-thoracic surgery meetings
KW - female surgeon
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U2 - 10.1093/ejcts/ezad427
DO - 10.1093/ejcts/ezad427
M3 - Article
C2 - 38128063
SN - 1010-7940
VL - 65
JO - European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
JF - European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
IS - 3
M1 - ezad427
ER -