Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Aesthet Surg J. 2021 Jun 14;41(7):NP914-NP920. doi: 10.1093/asj/sjab034.
During the past decade, a growing number of women have pursued medical careers, including in plastic surgery. However, female physicians have tended to be underrepresented in a variety of leadership roles in their respective specialties.
The authors sought to evaluate the representation of female plastic surgeons on the editorial boards of high-impact plastic surgery journals.
The gender of editorial board members on 3 high-impact plastic surgery journals was evaluated from 2009 and 2018. The number of women on each editorial board was then compared with the number of board-certified female plastic surgeons (BCFPS) and board-certified female academic plastic surgeons (BCFAPS), a subgroup of BCFPS.
There were 555 unique editorial board members from Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and Annals of Plastic Surgery from 2009 to 2018. During that period, 72 editors (13.0%) were women. At the beginning of the study, there were significantly fewer female editors than expected based on proportionate representation of BCFPS and BCFAPS to all board-certified plastic surgeons (P = 0.007 and 0.007, respectively). During the study, there was a 177% increase in women holding editorial board positions. At study end, women were adequately represented on all 3 editorial boards compared with their population data (BCFPS and BCFAPS).
During the 10 years of this study (2009-2018), editorial boards have overcome the underrepresentation of women on, and female plastic surgeons are currently adequately represented on the top 3 high-impact journal editorial boards.
在过去的十年中，越来越多的女性选择从事医学职业，包括整形外科学。然而，女性医生在各自专业的各种领导角色中往往代表性不足。
作者旨在评估高影响力整形外科学杂志编辑委员会中女性整形外科医生的代表性。
从 2009 年和 2018 年评估了 3 种高影响力整形外科学杂志的编辑委员会成员的性别。然后，将每个编辑委员会中的女性人数与董事会认证的女性整形外科医生（BCFPS）和董事会认证的女性学术整形外科医生（BCFAPS）进行比较，BCFAPS 是 BCFPS 的一个亚组。
2009 年至 2018 年，《整形与重建外科》、《美容外科杂志》和《整形外科学年鉴》共有 555 名独特的编辑委员会成员。在此期间，有 72 位编辑（13.0%）为女性。在研究开始时，女性编辑的人数明显少于根据 BCFPS 和 BCFAPS 对所有董事会认证的整形外科医生的比例预期（分别为 P=0.007 和 0.007）。在研究期间，担任编辑委员会职务的女性人数增加了 177%。在研究结束时，与女性人口数据相比，所有 3 个编辑委员会的女性代表人数都足够（BCFPS 和 BCFAPS）。
在本研究的 10 年期间（2009-2018 年），编辑委员会克服了女性在整形外科学领域代表性不足的问题，女性整形外科医生目前在三大高影响力期刊编辑委员会中得到了充分代表。
