Gender Distribution of Scholarship and Measures of National Recognition in Hospital Medicine

OBJECTIVE: Our specific aim was to assess the gender distribution of aspects of scholarly productivity and professional standing for pediatric hospital medicine over a 5-year period. We also evaluated for correlation between the makeup of editorial boards, conference planning committees, and chosen content. METHODS: We reviewed scholarly publications, presentations, editorial boards, planning committees, awardees, and society leadership in pediatric hospital medicine from 2015 to 2019 and determined gender using published methods to assess for differences between observed proportions of women authors and presenters and the proportion of women in the field. RESULTS: The field of pediatric hospital medicine at large is 69% women (95% confidence internal [CI] 68%–71%), and an estimated 57% of senior members are women (95% CI 54%–60%). We evaluated 570 original science manuscripts and found 67% (95% CI 63%–71%) women first authors and 49% (95% CI 44%–53%) women senior authors. We evaluated 1093 presentations at national conferences and found 69% (95% CI 65%–72%) women presenters of submitted content and 44% (95% CI 37%–51%) women presenters of invited content. Senior authorship and invited speaking engagements demonstrated disproportionately low representation of women when compared with senior members of the field (senior authorship, P = .002; invited presenters, P < .001). Strong positive correlation between gender composition of conference planning committees and selected content was also noted (r = 0.94). CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated representative gender distribution for some aspects of scholarly productivity in pediatric hospital medicine; however, a lack of gender parity exists in senior roles.

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Are we reaching gender parity among Palaeontology authors?

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11767 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sam Giles ◽

Rachel Warnock ◽

Emma Dunne ◽

Erin Saupe ◽

Laura Soul ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Publishing ◽

Women Authors ◽

Representation Of Women ◽

Gender Parity ◽

The Past ◽

Diversity Issues ◽

Using Data ◽

Almost All ◽

Made In ◽

Number Of Authors

<p>Women remain underrepresented in almost all areas of STEM, especially at senior levels, with palaeontology being no exception. There is a widespread perception that the situation is improving, and that it is simply a matter of time before this improvement is reflected at higher career stages. However, there is strong evidence that formidable barriers remain for women in palaeontology. We must question how much progress towards gender equality has been made in order to continue on a path towards equity. With a view to contributing quantitative data to this discussion, we examine whether the proportion of women publishing in palaeontology is approaching parity, using data from the journal <em>Palaeontology</em> as a proxy for the discipline. This work was motivated by the sense that, despite increased representation of women, articles on palaeontological subjects almost never appear to have over 50% women authors. Indeed, we find that women account for less than 20% of authors and, perhaps more surprisingly, there has been no substantial increase in the proportion of women contributing to the journal over the past 20 years. The percentage of articles in which women make up more than 50% of authors remains unchanged. The proportion of articles on which women are absent from the author list is decreasing, but this partly reflects an increase in the average number of authors per article. Our findings match those found in broader studies of the scientific literature, including those within the biological and Earth Sciences, which generally find that women make up less than 30% of authors. We highlight important barriers that remain for women and other under-represented groups in science, and make several recommendations to help improve their representation in palaeontology. Key recommendations include: acknowledging and engaging with diversity issues; targeted recruitment of women to all levels of academic publishing; actively promoting individuals from all underrepresented groups, especially those at the intersections of multiple minoritized identities; and collecting relevant data and perspectives.</p>

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THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN HOSPITALITY JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS

JOURNAL OF TOURSIM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT ◽

10.35666/25662880.2018.4.149 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 149-166

Keyword(s):

Research Productivity ◽

Gender Disparity ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

Academic Field ◽

American Universities ◽

Representation Of Women ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

Gender Parity ◽

Journal Editorial ◽

Tourism And Hospitality

Despite their proven abilities as leaders, women continue to be marginalized at both local and global levels. Even in the academic field, the issue of gender disparity, which hampers women’s advancement in rank and responsibility, has attracted the interest of several studies for decades. In an effort to study the issue of gender parity, this paper documents the extent of women representation in the editorial boards of ten leading hospitality academic journals, reviewing the functions of women at various editorial levels. The paper builds upon previous research in tourism and hospitality and in the fields of management, marketing, medicine and economics, to name a few. To achieve this, an exploratory research design was used where manual data collection and quantitative analysis was employed. Some of the findings reveal that only 132 (of 624) editorial members were women, holding management, editor and other positions in the board: an important consideration that reflects the issue of gender disparity in hospitality journal editorial boards. The majority of these positions were held at professorial rank and were affiliated with American universities. Their presence on the boards, was mainly influenced by the size of the board, the age of the journal and the women’s research productivity.

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Gender Distribution in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Leadership

Journal of Hospital Medicine ◽

10.12788/jhm.3555 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 31-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jessica M Allan ◽

Juliann L Kim ◽

Shawn L Ralston ◽

Nicole M Paradise Black ◽

Rebecca Blankenburg ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gender Equity ◽

Hospital Medicine ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Pediatric Hospital ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Gender Distribution ◽

Program Leaders ◽

Unique Position ◽

The Way

Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM), a field early in its development and with a robust pipeline of women, is in a unique position to lead the way in gender equity. We describe the proportion of women in divisional and fellowship leadership positions at university-based PHM programs (n = 142). When compared with the PHM field at large, women appear to be underrepresented as PHM division/program leaders (70% vs 55%; P < .001) but not as fellowship directors (70% vs 66%; P > .05). Women appear proportionally represented in associate/assistant leadership roles when compared with the distribution of the PHM field at large. Tracking these trends overtime is essential to advancing the field. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2020;15:XXX-XXX. © 2020 Society of Hospital Medicine

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