From the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine; Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children; Harvard Medical School; Linköping University Hospital; and Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 Dec 1;148(6):1408-1413. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000008527.
Gender equity remains to be realized in academic plastic and reconstructive surgery. The purpose of this study was to measure the proportion of women in leadership roles in academic plastic and reconstructive surgery to verify where gender gaps may persist.
Six markers of leadership were analyzed: academic faculty rank, manuscript authorship, program directorship, journal editor-in-chief positions, society board of directors membership, and professional society membership. Descriptive statistics were performed, and chi-square tests were used to compare categorical variables.
About 16 percent to 19 percent of practicing plastic surgeons are female, as measured by the percentage of female faculty and American Society of Plastic Surgeons members. Female plastic surgeons comprised 18.9 percent (n = 178) of the faculty from 88 academic plastic surgery institutions, and represented 9.9 percent of full professors and 10.8 percent of chiefs. Nineteen institutions had no female faculty. Women were first authors in 23.4 percent of publications and senior author in 14.7 percent of publications. No journal studied had a female editor-in-chief. Of the examined plastic and reconstructive societies, the proportion of women on the board of directors ranged from 16.7 percent to 23.5 percent.
The proportion of female program directors, first manuscript authors, and board members of certain societies is commensurate with the number of women in the field, suggesting an evolving landscape within the specialty. However, women remain underrepresented in many other leadership roles, heralding the work that remains to ensure gender parity exists for those pursuing leadership roles in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
在学术整形外科学领域，性别平等仍有待实现。本研究的目的是测量学术整形外科学领域女性在领导岗位中的比例，以验证性别差距可能持续存在的地方。
分析了领导力的六个标志：学术教师级别、论文作者、项目主任、期刊主编职位、学会理事会成员和专业学会会员。进行了描述性统计分析，并使用卡方检验比较了分类变量。
通过女性教师和美国整形外科学会成员的比例衡量，约有 16%至 19%的执业整形医师为女性。88 所学术整形外科学机构的教师中，女性整形医师占 18.9%（n=178），占正教授的 10.8%和主任的 10.8%。有 19 个机构没有女性教师。女性在 23.4%的出版物中为第一作者，在 14.7%的出版物中为资深作者。没有研究的期刊有女性主编。在所检查的整形和重建学会中，董事会成员中的女性比例从 16.7%到 23.5%不等。
女性项目主任、第一手稿作者和某些学会董事会成员的比例与该领域女性的数量相称，这表明该专业领域的情况正在不断发展。然而，女性在许多其他领导角色中仍然代表性不足，这表明在追求整形和重建外科学领域领导角色的女性中，仍然需要开展工作以确保性别平等。
