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Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?

BACKGROUND: Presenting at professional and scientific conferences can be an important part of an individual’s career advancement, especially for researchers communicating scientific findings, and can signal expertise and leadership. Generally, women presenting at conferences are underrepresented in...

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Autores principales: Aspinall, Sasha L, Nim, Casper Glissmann, Harsted, Steen, Miller, Amy, Øverås, Cecilie K, Roseen, Eric J, Young, James J, Søgaard, Karen, Kawchuk, Greg, Hartvigsen, Jan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10416520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37563699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-023-00498-w
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author Aspinall, Sasha L
Nim, Casper Glissmann
Harsted, Steen
Miller, Amy
Øverås, Cecilie K
Roseen, Eric J
Young, James J
Søgaard, Karen
Kawchuk, Greg
Hartvigsen, Jan
author_facet Aspinall, Sasha L
Nim, Casper Glissmann
Harsted, Steen
Miller, Amy
Øverås, Cecilie K
Roseen, Eric J
Young, James J
Søgaard, Karen
Kawchuk, Greg
Hartvigsen, Jan
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description BACKGROUND: Presenting at professional and scientific conferences can be an important part of an individual’s career advancement, especially for researchers communicating scientific findings, and can signal expertise and leadership. Generally, women presenting at conferences are underrepresented in various science disciplines. We aimed to evaluate the gender of presenters at research-oriented chiropractic conferences from 2010 to 2019. METHODS: We investigated the gender of presenters at conferences hosted by chiropractic organisations from 2010 to 2019 that utilised an abstract submission process. Gender classification was performed by two independent reviewers. The gender distribution of presenters over the ten-year period was analysed with linear regression. The association of conference factors with the gender distribution of presenters was also assessed with linear regression, including the gender of organising committees and abstract peer reviewers, and the geographic region where the conference was hosted. RESULTS: From 39 conferences, we identified 4,340 unique presentations. Women gave 1,528 (35%) of the presentations. No presenters were classified as gender diverse. Overall, the proportion of women presenters was 30% in 2010 and 42% in 2019, with linear regression demonstrating a 1% increase in women presenting per year (95% CI = 0.4–1.6%). Invited/keynote speakers had the lowest proportion of women (21%) and the most stagnant trajectory over time. The gender of conference organisers and abstract peer reviewers were not significantly associated with the gender of presenters. Oceanic conferences had a lower proportion of women presenting compared to North America (27% vs. 36%). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, women gave approximately one-third of presentations at the included conferences, which gradually increased from 2010 to 2019. However, the disparity widens for the most prestigious class of keynote/invited presenters. We make several recommendations to support the goal of gender equity, including monitoring and reporting on gender diversity at future conferences. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12998-023-00498-w.
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spelling pubmed-104165202023-08-12 Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem? Aspinall, Sasha L Nim, Casper Glissmann Harsted, Steen Miller, Amy Øverås, Cecilie K Roseen, Eric J Young, James J Søgaard, Karen Kawchuk, Greg Hartvigsen, Jan Chiropr Man Therap Research BACKGROUND: Presenting at professional and scientific conferences can be an important part of an individual’s career advancement, especially for researchers communicating scientific findings, and can signal expertise and leadership. Generally, women presenting at conferences are underrepresented in various science disciplines. We aimed to evaluate the gender of presenters at research-oriented chiropractic conferences from 2010 to 2019. METHODS: We investigated the gender of presenters at conferences hosted by chiropractic organisations from 2010 to 2019 that utilised an abstract submission process. Gender classification was performed by two independent reviewers. The gender distribution of presenters over the ten-year period was analysed with linear regression. The association of conference factors with the gender distribution of presenters was also assessed with linear regression, including the gender of organising committees and abstract peer reviewers, and the geographic region where the conference was hosted. RESULTS: From 39 conferences, we identified 4,340 unique presentations. Women gave 1,528 (35%) of the presentations. No presenters were classified as gender diverse. Overall, the proportion of women presenters was 30% in 2010 and 42% in 2019, with linear regression demonstrating a 1% increase in women presenting per year (95% CI = 0.4–1.6%). Invited/keynote speakers had the lowest proportion of women (21%) and the most stagnant trajectory over time. The gender of conference organisers and abstract peer reviewers were not significantly associated with the gender of presenters. Oceanic conferences had a lower proportion of women presenting compared to North America (27% vs. 36%). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, women gave approximately one-third of presentations at the included conferences, which gradually increased from 2010 to 2019. However, the disparity widens for the most prestigious class of keynote/invited presenters. We make several recommendations to support the goal of gender equity, including monitoring and reporting on gender diversity at future conferences. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12998-023-00498-w. BioMed Central 2023-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10416520/ /pubmed/37563699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-023-00498-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Aspinall, Sasha L
Nim, Casper Glissmann
Harsted, Steen
Miller, Amy
Øverås, Cecilie K
Roseen, Eric J
Young, James J
Søgaard, Karen
Kawchuk, Greg
Hartvigsen, Jan
Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title_full Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title_fullStr Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title_full_unstemmed Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title_short Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
title_sort presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem?
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10416520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37563699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-023-00498-w
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