Department of Internal and Emergency Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Switzerland.
Department of Internal and Emergency Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Switzerland.
Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Sep;47:176-179. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.04.042. Epub 2021 Apr 18.
Gender gaps have been described regarding the chairpersons in academic emergency departments, the composition of editorial boards and publications in emergency medicine. The objective of this study was to determine the gender distribution of chairpersons and board members of emergency medicine societies worldwide.
In this cross-sectional analysis, websites of national emergency medicine societies worldwide were screened for the composition of executive boards and the respective chairpersons. The gender of the board members and chairpersons was obtained either by the profile on the respective web site and/or by internet search and gender identification software. Descriptive statistics were performed and results for national societies were stratified by continent.
A total of 61 boards of national emergency medicine societies were analyzed. Detailed information on the board composition was available for 50 societies, of which 27 were from Europe, 10 from Asia, five from Africa, four from North America, three from South America and one from Australasia. A total of 603 persons were included in the analysis. 45 (82%) of the listed societies' presidents were male, while 10 (18%) were female. 385 (70%) of the non-president board members were male. The highest proportion of female board members was seen in Australia/New Zealand with five out of eight persons (62%) followed by South America with 13 out of 29 (45%).
A marked gender disparity was found for emergency medicine societies worldwide in terms of chair functions as well as board composition. Wide regional differences were found between world regions.
在学术急诊部门的主席、编辑委员会的组成以及急诊医学出版物方面，已经描述了性别差距。本研究的目的是确定全球急诊医学学会主席和董事会成员的性别分布。
在这项横断面分析中，对全球各国急诊医学学会的网站进行了筛选，以了解执行委员会的组成和各自的主席。通过各自网站上的个人资料和/或通过互联网搜索和性别识别软件获得董事会成员和主席的性别。进行了描述性统计分析，并按大洲对国家学会的结果进行了分层。
共分析了 61 个国家急诊医学学会的董事会。50 个学会中有详细的董事会组成信息，其中 27 个来自欧洲，10 个来自亚洲，5 个来自非洲，4 个来自北美，3 个来自南美，1 个来自澳大拉西亚。共有 603 人参与了分析。列出的学会主席中，有 45 人（82%）为男性，10 人（18%）为女性。385 名（70%）非主席董事会成员为男性。在澳大利亚/新西兰，女性董事会成员的比例最高，有 8 人中有 5 人（62%），其次是南美洲，有 29 人中有 13 人（45%）。
在主席职能以及董事会组成方面，全球急诊医学学会存在明显的性别差距。世界各地区之间存在广泛的区域差异。
