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The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies
The authors of this article, all women who have been deeply committed to the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), performed a retrospective analysis of gender equality practices of FOCIS to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations accordingly. Gender data were obtained...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015160/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.816535 |
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author | Reed, Elaine F. Chong, Anita S. Levings, Megan K. Mutrie, Caley Laufer, Terri M. Roncarolo, Maria Grazia Sykes, Megan |
author_facet | Reed, Elaine F. Chong, Anita S. Levings, Megan K. Mutrie, Caley Laufer, Terri M. Roncarolo, Maria Grazia Sykes, Megan |
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description | The authors of this article, all women who have been deeply committed to the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), performed a retrospective analysis of gender equality practices of FOCIS to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations accordingly. Gender data were obtained and analyzed for the period from January 2010 to July 2021. Outcome measures included numbers of men and women across the following categories: membership enrollment, meeting and course faculty and attendees, committee and leadership composition. FOCIS’ past and present leaders, steering committee members, FCE directors, individual members, as well as education, annual meeting scientific program and FCE committee members and management staff of FOCIS were surveyed by email questionnaire for feedback on FOCIS policies and practice with respect to gender equality and inclusion. Although women represent 50% of the membership, they have been underrepresented in all leadership, educational, and committee roles within the FOCIS organization. Surveying FOCIS leadership and membership revealed a growing recognition of disparities in female leadership across all FOCIS missions, leading to significant improvement in multiple areas since 2016. We highlight these changes and propose a number of recommendations that can be used by FOCIS to improve gender equality. |
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spelling | pubmed-90151602022-04-19 The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Reed, Elaine F. Chong, Anita S. Levings, Megan K. Mutrie, Caley Laufer, Terri M. Roncarolo, Maria Grazia Sykes, Megan Front Immunol Immunology The authors of this article, all women who have been deeply committed to the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), performed a retrospective analysis of gender equality practices of FOCIS to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations accordingly. Gender data were obtained and analyzed for the period from January 2010 to July 2021. Outcome measures included numbers of men and women across the following categories: membership enrollment, meeting and course faculty and attendees, committee and leadership composition. FOCIS’ past and present leaders, steering committee members, FCE directors, individual members, as well as education, annual meeting scientific program and FCE committee members and management staff of FOCIS were surveyed by email questionnaire for feedback on FOCIS policies and practice with respect to gender equality and inclusion. Although women represent 50% of the membership, they have been underrepresented in all leadership, educational, and committee roles within the FOCIS organization. Surveying FOCIS leadership and membership revealed a growing recognition of disparities in female leadership across all FOCIS missions, leading to significant improvement in multiple areas since 2016. We highlight these changes and propose a number of recommendations that can be used by FOCIS to improve gender equality. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9015160/ /pubmed/35444663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.816535 Text en Copyright © 2022 Reed, Chong, Levings, Mutrie, Laufer, Roncarolo and Sykes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Immunology Reed, Elaine F. Chong, Anita S. Levings, Megan K. Mutrie, Caley Laufer, Terri M. Roncarolo, Maria Grazia Sykes, Megan The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title | The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title_full | The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title_fullStr | The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title_full_unstemmed | The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title_short | The Women of FOCIS: Promoting Equality and Inclusiveness in a Professional Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies |
title_sort | women of focis: promoting equality and inclusiveness in a professional federation of clinical immunology societies |
topic | Immunology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015160/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.816535 |
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