Ramos Miguel Bertelli, Criscuoli de Farias Frederico Arriaga, Einsfeld Britz João Pedro, de Quadros Francine Würzius, Koch Ketelly Bueno, Carobin Vanessa Nodari, Falavigna Asdrubal
Post-Graduation Program in Health Sciences, University of Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil.
Neurology Residency, Moinhos de Vento Hospital, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Int J Spine Surg. 2022 Apr;16(2):404-411. doi: 10.14444/8223.
Both neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery are male-dominated specialties. However, the prevalence of women appears to be even lower in the spine surgery field. We intend to determine this prevalence on the editorial boards of spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic journals.
The gender of editorial board members of Medline-indexed spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic journals was systematically analyzed in 2019, and female representation was compared among these fields.
In the 34 journals included (5 spine, 13 neurosurgery, and 16 orthopedic journals), women represented 8.84% ( = 185/2094) of editorial board members. Their representation was 5.53% ( = 30/542) in spine, 8.58% ( = 47/548) in neurosurgery, and 10.77 % (108/1003) in orthopedic journals. Only 5.4% ( = 2/37) of the editors-in-chief were women. The likelihood of having female members was higher in orthopedic than in spine journals (OR = 2.06; 95% CI = 1.35-3.13; = 0.001). Neurosurgery journals did not show a significant greater likelihood of having female editorial board members than spine journals (OR = 1.60; 95% CI = 0.99-2.57; = 0.058).
The representation of women on editorial boards of spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic journals is very low and appears to be even lower for spine surgery. However, it is still not understood whether or not women are barred from advancing in academics by gender bias within these specialties.
神经外科和骨科手术都是男性主导的专科领域。然而，脊柱外科领域女性的比例似乎更低。我们打算确定脊柱、神经外科和骨科期刊编辑委员会中女性的比例。
2019年对被Medline索引的脊柱、神经外科和骨科期刊编辑委员会成员的性别进行了系统分析，并比较了这些领域中女性的占比情况。
在所纳入的34种期刊中（5种脊柱期刊、13种神经外科期刊和16种骨科期刊），女性占编辑委员会成员的8.84%（185/2094）。在脊柱期刊中占5.53%（30/542），在神经外科期刊中占8.58%（47/548），在骨科期刊中占10.77%（108/1003）。主编中只有5.4%（2/37）是女性。骨科期刊拥有女性成员的可能性高于脊柱期刊（OR = 2.06；95%CI = 1.35 - 3.13；P = 0.001）。神经外科期刊拥有女性编辑委员会成员的可能性并不显著高于脊柱期刊（OR = 1.60；95%CI = 0.99 - 2.57；P = 0.058）。
脊柱、神经外科和骨科期刊编辑委员会中女性的占比非常低，脊柱外科领域的占比似乎更低。然而，这些专科领域内的性别偏见是否阻碍了女性在学术界的发展仍不清楚。
