Metaxa Victoria
Crit Care. 2013 Jan 29;17(1):112. doi: 10.1186/cc11859.
During the past 50 years, the participation of women in medicine has increased dramatically. However, this encouraging influx has not been accompanied by equality for male and female faculty in terms of rank attainment, leadership roles and salaries. There is considerable evidence that women are still under-represented in the higher echelons of academic medicine, either as heads of departments, authors of scientific papers or members of editorial boards. Participation in medical congresses is another important measure of medical achievement; this manuscript comments on the female representation in four of the largest international meetings in the field of intensive care medicine (ICM). It notes the scarcity of female faculty members and proposes several explanations for this phenomenon. The notable under-representation of women in the ICM congresses suggests the existence of a 'glass ceiling' in the field of intensive care medicine, a specialty that, up until today, hasn't been considered as traditionally 'male'.
在过去的50年里，女性在医学领域的参与度大幅提高。然而，这种令人鼓舞的涌入并没有伴随着男女教员在职称获得、领导角色和薪资方面的平等。有大量证据表明，在学术医学的高层，女性担任系主任、科学论文作者或编辑委员会成员的比例仍然很低。参加医学大会是衡量医学成就的另一项重要指标；本文评论了女性在重症医学（ICM）领域四大国际会议中的参会情况。文中指出女性教员稀缺，并对这一现象提出了几种解释。女性在ICM大会上的显著低参与度表明重症医学领域存在“玻璃天花板”，而该专业直到如今都未被视为传统上的“男性领域”。
