From the Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Jul;43(5):516-520. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000774.
Despite a growing awareness about the importance of gender equity and the rising number of women in medicine, women remain persistently underrepresented in pain medicine and anesthesiology. Pain medicine ranks among the bottom quartile of medical specialties in terms of female applicants, female trainees, and proportion of female practitioners. Female pain medicine physicians are also notably disadvantaged compared with their male colleagues in most objective metrics of gender equity, which include financial compensation, career advancement, public recognition, and leadership positions. Increased gender diversity among pain medicine physicians is vital to fostering excellence in pain research, education, and clinical care, as well as creating a high-quality work environment. Pain medicine stands at a crossroads as a specialty, and must examine reasons for its current gender gap and consider a call to action to address this important issue.
尽管人们越来越意识到性别平等的重要性，医学领域的女性人数也在不断增加，但在疼痛医学和麻醉学领域，女性的代表性仍然不足。在女性申请人、女性受训者以及女性从业者的比例方面，疼痛医学在医学专业中排名垫底。与男性同事相比，女性疼痛医学医师在大多数性别平等的客观指标上也明显处于劣势，这些指标包括经济补偿、职业发展、公众认可和领导职位。增加疼痛医学医师中的性别多样性对于促进疼痛研究、教育和临床护理的卓越发展以及创造高质量的工作环境至关重要。疼痛医学作为一个专业正处于十字路口，必须审视其当前性别差距的原因，并考虑采取行动来解决这个重要问题。
