Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Internal Medicine, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA.
Endocrine. 2019 Jun;64(3):496-499. doi: 10.1007/s12020-019-01861-9. Epub 2019 Feb 20.
Although women's status has shown marked improvement over the years in many areas, women still face a gender bias, especially in the workforce. Despite the best efforts of organizations to promote diversity and equality, women still dominate the lower-paying administrative ranks while men continue to dominate at the executive level. The present study examines gender disparity in the leadership positions in the national and international endocrinology and diabetes societies across the globe.
We first composed a list of Diabetes and Endocrinology societies from online databases, including the International Diabetes Federation, European Society of Endocrinology, and other similar online directories. The Scopus database author search was used to find the total number of publications, publication range (in years), h-indices, number of citations, and years of active research of each member.
Our study included 524 board members of whom 31.3% (164/524) were women. The institutional academic rank of 310 of the total board members was found. The proportion of women in higher-faculty ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professors, and Professors) is much lower than males. Female endocrinologists also have fewer publications, citations, and years of active research.
Endocrinology is becoming a female-predominant subspecialty of internal medicine. As women are becoming a more significant portion of the endocrinology workforce, it is imperative to study and mitigate gender differences and disparities to optimize the endocrinology workforce.
尽管女性在许多领域的地位近年来有了显著提高，但她们仍然面临性别偏见，尤其是在劳动力市场中。尽管组织尽了最大努力促进多样性和平等，但女性仍然主导着薪酬较低的行政级别，而男性则继续主导着高管级别。本研究考察了全球各国和国际内分泌学和糖尿病学会领导层中的性别差距。
我们首先从在线数据库（包括国际糖尿病联合会、欧洲内分泌学会和其他类似的在线目录）中编制了一份糖尿病和内分泌学会的名单。使用 Scopus 数据库作者搜索来查找每个成员的总出版物数量、出版范围（年限）、h 指数、引用次数和活跃研究年限。
我们的研究包括 524 名董事会成员，其中 31.3%（164/524）是女性。我们发现了 310 名董事会成员的机构学术排名。在更高职称（助理教授、副教授和教授）中女性的比例明显低于男性。女性内分泌学家的出版物、引用次数和活跃研究年限也较少。
内分泌学正在成为内科的一个以女性为主导的亚专业。随着女性在内分泌学劳动力中所占比例越来越大，研究和减轻性别差异和差距以优化内分泌学劳动力至关重要。
