Ehrlich Haley, Nguyen Jackie, Sutherland Mason, Ali Aleeza, Gill Sabrina, McKenney Mark, Elkbuli Adel
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL.
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL; Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Surgery. 2021 Jun;169(6):1346-1351. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2020.12.026. Epub 2021 Jan 23.
Gender disparities still exist in the field of academic surgery. Women face additional obstacles obtaining high-ranking, surgical academia positions compared to men, and this may extend to the appointment of editorial board members. We aim to evaluate the gender distribution of editorial board members, associate editors, and editors-in-chief of top US surgical journals and to recommend interventions, which can promote equitable gender representation among editorial boards.
The study is a cross-sectional analysis using publicly available data regarding the number and proportion of female editorial board members, associate editors, and editors-in-chief from 42 US surgical journals. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were performed with significance defined as P < .05.
Of 2,836 editorial board members from 42 US surgical journals, 420 (14.8%) were women. Of 881 associate editors, 118 (13.3%) were women. Only 2/42 (4.8%) of editors-in-chief were women. The mean proportions of female editorial board members and associate editors were 14.5% and 19.5%, respectively. No significant associations were found between the 2019 Scimago Journal & Country Rank indicator nor the 2019 impact factor and the proportion of female editorial board members and female associate editors after adjusting for author H-index.
Gender disparities are evident in academic surgery, and women comprise a minority of US surgical editorial board members, associate editors, and editors-in-chief. The implementation of women mentorship from senior faculty on behalf of senior residents and junior faculty, as well as journal-facilitated pipeline programs, can diversify editorial board members by increasing women representation and reduce disparities in surgical journal editorial boards.
学术外科领域仍然存在性别差异。与男性相比，女性在获得高级别的外科领域学术职位时面临更多障碍，这可能延伸至编辑委员会成员的任命。我们旨在评估美国顶级外科期刊编辑委员会成员、副主编和主编的性别分布，并推荐能够促进编辑委员会中性别公平代表性的干预措施。
本研究是一项横断面分析，使用了关于42种美国外科期刊女性编辑委员会成员、副主编和主编数量及比例的公开数据。进行了描述性统计和线性回归分析，显著性定义为P < 0.05。
在42种美国外科期刊的2836名编辑委员会成员中，420名（14.8%）为女性。在881名副主编中，118名（13.3%）为女性。只有2/42（4.8%）的主编为女性。女性编辑委员会成员和副主编的平均比例分别为14.5%和19.5%。在调整作者H指数后，2019年Scimago期刊与国家排名指标以及2019年影响因子与女性编辑委员会成员和女性副主编的比例之间未发现显著关联。
学术外科领域存在明显的性别差异，女性在美国外科期刊编辑委员会成员、副主编和主编中占少数。由资深教员为高级住院医师和初级教员提供女性导师指导，以及期刊推动的人才培养计划，可以通过增加女性代表性使编辑委员会成员多样化，并减少外科期刊编辑委员会中的性别差异。
