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(#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event
BACKGROUND: Over the last few decades, advances have been made regarding gender equality starting from medical students to trainees, to leadership in academics. The female representation in specialty academic conferences not only reflects the existing gender disparities in that specialty but also ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8800828/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35094252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-021-07366-8 |
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author | Khan, Zubair Rukhshan, Rabia Bhatt, Asmeen Guha, Sushovan Ramireddy, Srinivas Patil, Prithvi Badillo, Ricardo DaVee, Roy Tomas Thosani, Nirav |
author_facet | Khan, Zubair Rukhshan, Rabia Bhatt, Asmeen Guha, Sushovan Ramireddy, Srinivas Patil, Prithvi Badillo, Ricardo DaVee, Roy Tomas Thosani, Nirav |
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description | BACKGROUND: Over the last few decades, advances have been made regarding gender equality starting from medical students to trainees, to leadership in academics. The female representation in specialty academic conferences not only reflects the existing gender disparities in that specialty but also can influence young female trainees to join that field. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the premier digestive disease event. We aimed to calculate the proportion of female representation among speakers and moderators at the DDW meetings held from 2018 to 2020. METHODS: The data for DDW 2018–2020 were collected via the online web-based planner. The gender of speakers of presentations and moderators of sessions were identified by a google search. We further categorized the data by each participating society (AGA, ASGE, AASLD, and SSAT), by presentation track, by session track, and total overall representation in each year. RESULTS: Despite the subject of the gender gap being in focus, the proportion of female moderators and speakers was low in DDW in the last 3 years. The female speakers constituted 31.6% in 2018, 33.8% in 2019 and 34.6% in 2020. There was slightly improved female representation in sessions of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Stomach, and Small Bowel Disorders, Microbiome in GI & Liver disease, and Basic Science over the last 3 years. CONCLUSION: Based on our study and those referenced in this article, we believe that strategies to promote the inclusivity of female moderators and speakers at DDW provide a huge opportunity to influence gender equity within GI. |
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spelling | pubmed-88008282022-01-31 (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event Khan, Zubair Rukhshan, Rabia Bhatt, Asmeen Guha, Sushovan Ramireddy, Srinivas Patil, Prithvi Badillo, Ricardo DaVee, Roy Tomas Thosani, Nirav Dig Dis Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Over the last few decades, advances have been made regarding gender equality starting from medical students to trainees, to leadership in academics. The female representation in specialty academic conferences not only reflects the existing gender disparities in that specialty but also can influence young female trainees to join that field. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the premier digestive disease event. We aimed to calculate the proportion of female representation among speakers and moderators at the DDW meetings held from 2018 to 2020. METHODS: The data for DDW 2018–2020 were collected via the online web-based planner. The gender of speakers of presentations and moderators of sessions were identified by a google search. We further categorized the data by each participating society (AGA, ASGE, AASLD, and SSAT), by presentation track, by session track, and total overall representation in each year. RESULTS: Despite the subject of the gender gap being in focus, the proportion of female moderators and speakers was low in DDW in the last 3 years. The female speakers constituted 31.6% in 2018, 33.8% in 2019 and 34.6% in 2020. There was slightly improved female representation in sessions of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Stomach, and Small Bowel Disorders, Microbiome in GI & Liver disease, and Basic Science over the last 3 years. CONCLUSION: Based on our study and those referenced in this article, we believe that strategies to promote the inclusivity of female moderators and speakers at DDW provide a huge opportunity to influence gender equity within GI. Springer US 2022-01-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8800828/ /pubmed/35094252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-021-07366-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Khan, Zubair Rukhshan, Rabia Bhatt, Asmeen Guha, Sushovan Ramireddy, Srinivas Patil, Prithvi Badillo, Ricardo DaVee, Roy Tomas Thosani, Nirav (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title | (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title_full | (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title_fullStr | (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title_full_unstemmed | (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title_short | (#WomeninDDW) Persistent Speaker Gender Gap at the Premier Digestive Disease Event |
title_sort | (#womeninddw) persistent speaker gender gap at the premier digestive disease event |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8800828/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35094252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-021-07366-8 |
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