Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2022 May 2;6(3). doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkac036.
To explore persisting gender disparities across leadership roles in medicine, we examined factors associated with holding endowed chairs in US oncology divisions. In 2019, we identified 95 academic oncology divisions, using the Oncology Division Chiefs and Department Chairs listing in the American Society of Clinical Oncology myConnection forum. We collected public information on gender, degree, total National Institutes of Health funding as principal investigator, H-indices, publication and citation numbers, and graduation year and constructed a multivariable logistic regression model. All statistical tests were 2-sided. We identified 1087 oncology full professors. Of these, 287 (26.4%) held endowed chairs: 60 of 269 women (22.3%) vs 227 of 818 men (27.8%) (P = .08). On multivariable analysis, greater research productivity and National Institutes of Health funding were associated with having an endowed chair (P < .001), whereas gender was not (P = .45). Though sample size was limited, if gender differences are in fact smaller in certain subspecialties than other fields of internal medicine, insights might emerge to guide efforts to promote equity.
为了探究医学领域领导角色中持续存在的性别差距，我们研究了与美国肿瘤学系担任特聘教授职位相关的因素。2019 年，我们使用美国临床肿瘤学会 myConnection 论坛中的肿瘤学系主任和系主任名单，确定了 95 个学术肿瘤学系。我们收集了关于性别、学位、作为主要研究员的国立卫生研究院总资助、H 指数、出版物和引用数量以及毕业年份的公开信息，并构建了多变量逻辑回归模型。所有统计检验均为双侧。我们确定了 1087 名肿瘤学正教授。其中，287 人（26.4%）担任特聘教授：269 名女性中有 60 人（22.3%），818 名男性中有 227 人（27.8%）（P = .08）。在多变量分析中，更高的研究生产力和国立卫生研究院的资助与拥有特聘教授职位相关（P < .001），而性别则没有（P = .45）。尽管样本量有限，但如果性别差异在某些亚专业领域确实比内科其他领域更小，那么可能会有一些见解来指导促进公平的努力。
