Deutsch Nina, Yanofsky Samuel D, Markowitz Scott D, Tackett Sean, Berenstain Laura K, Schwartz Lawrence I, Flick Randall, Heitmiller Eugenie, Fiadjoe John, Lee Helen H, Honkanen Anita, Malviya Shobha, Lee Jennifer K, Schwartz Jamie McElrath
Division of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paediatr Anaesth. 2023 Jan;33(1):6-16. doi: 10.1111/pan.14596. Epub 2022 Nov 11.
The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia launched the Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) in 2018 to empower highly productive women pediatric anesthesiologists to achieve equity, promotion, and leadership. WELI is focused on six career development domains: promotion and leadership, networking, conceptualization and completion of projects, mentoring, career satisfaction, and sense of well-being. We sought feedback about whether WELI supported members' career development by surveys emailed in November 2020 (baseline), May 2021 (6 months), and January 2022 (14 months). Program feedback was quantitatively evaluated by the Likert scale questions and qualitatively evaluated by extracting themes from free-text question responses. The response rates were 60.5% (92 of 152) for the baseline, 51% (82 of 161) for the 6-month, and 52% (96 of 185) for the 14-month surveys. Five main themes were identified from the free-text responses in the 6- and 14-month surveys. Members reported that WELI helped them create meaningful connections through networking, obtain new career opportunities, find tools and projects that supported their career advancement and promotion, build the confidence to try new things beyond their comfort zone, and achieve better work-life integration. Frustration with the inability to connect in-person during the coronavirus-19 pandemic was highlighted. Advisors further stated that WELI helped them improve their mentorship skills and gave them insight into early career faculty issues. Relative to the baseline survey, protégés reported greater contributions from WELI at 6 months in helping them clarify their priorities, increase their sense of achievement, and get promoted. These benefits persisted through 14 months. Advisors reported a steady increase in forming new meaningful relationships and finding new collaborators through WELI over time. All the members reported that their self-rated mentoring abilities improved at 6 months with sustained improvement at 14 months. Thus, programs such as WELI can assist women anesthesiologists and foster gender equity in career development, promotion, and leadership.
小儿麻醉学会于2018年发起了女性赋权与领导力倡议(WELI),以赋能高产的女性小儿麻醉医生实现公平、晋升和领导地位。WELI专注于六个职业发展领域:晋升与领导、人际关系网络、项目概念化与完成、指导、职业满意度和幸福感。我们通过在2020年11月(基线)、2021年5月(6个月)和2022年1月(14个月)发送的调查问卷,征求关于WELI是否支持会员职业发展的反馈。通过李克特量表问题对项目反馈进行定量评估,并通过从自由文本问题回复中提取主题进行定性评估。基线调查的回复率为60.5%(152份中的92份),6个月调查的回复率为51%(161份中的82份),14个月调查的回复率为52%(185份中的96份)。在6个月和14个月的调查中,从自由文本回复中确定了五个主要主题。会员们报告称,WELI帮助他们通过人际关系网络建立有意义的联系,获得新的职业机会,找到支持其职业发展和晋升的工具及项目,增强在舒适区之外尝试新事物的信心,并实现更好的工作与生活平衡。突出了对在新冠疫情期间无法进行面对面交流的沮丧情绪。导师们进一步表示,WELI帮助他们提高了指导技能,并让他们深入了解了早期职业教员的问题。与基线调查相比,学员们报告称,WELI在6个月时对帮助他们明确优先事项、增强成就感和获得晋升方面做出了更大贡献。这些益处持续到了14个月。导师们报告称,随着时间的推移,通过WELI建立新的有意义关系和找到新合作者的情况稳步增加。所有会员都报告称,他们的自我评估指导能力在6个月时有所提高,并在14个月时持续提升。因此,像WELI这样的项目可以帮助女性麻醉医生,并在职业发展、晋升和领导方面促进性别平等。
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