Malik Elisa, Halling Thorsten, Dreher Annegret, Marazia Chantal, Esposito Irene, Loerbroks Adrian, Hansson Nils
Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Centre for Health and Society, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
Institut für Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin, Centre for Health and Society, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Deutschland.
Pathologie (Heidelb). 2024 Feb;45(1):59-66. doi: 10.1007/s00292-023-01239-9. Epub 2023 Oct 20.
Awards provide their recipients with fame and recognition, and subsequently facilitate publications and acquisition of external funding through increased visibility. We hypothesize that despite increasing representation in pathology, women are underrepresented as awardees in the German Society of Pathology and consequently there is an associated imbalance between genders.
Published data from the German Society of Pathology on female awardees during the period from 2000 to 2022 were examined. Only awards specifically dedicated to the field of pathology were considered. In addition, the publicly available data of the German Medical Association on gender and age distribution of pathologists in Germany were considered as reference material.
A total of six different awards were included in the analysis. Among the 143 awardees across 150 individual awards in the period from 2000 to 2022, 55 (38.4%) of the awardees were female compared to an average percentage of 31% of women working in the field of pathology in the 23-year period under consideration. Consequently, female awardees in pathology were not underrepresented when compared to the national figures on the proportion of women in the field of pathology. However, the distribution of female awardees across individual awards suggests that women were increasingly represented in less prestigious research and doctoral awards, while men made up a large proportion of awardees of honorary awards (0% women) and prestigious awards (17% women).
奖项为获得者带来声誉和认可，进而通过提高知名度促进出版物发表和外部资金获取。我们推测，尽管病理学领域女性代表人数有所增加，但在德国病理学会中，女性作为获奖者的比例却偏低，因此存在性别失衡问题。
研究了德国病理学会2000年至2022年期间公布的女性获奖者数据。仅考虑专门针对病理学领域的奖项。此外，德国医学协会公布的德国病理学家性别和年龄分布数据被用作参考资料。
分析共纳入六个不同奖项。在2000年至2022年期间的150个个人奖项的143位获奖者中，55位（38.4%）为女性，而在所考虑的23年期间，病理学领域女性从业者的平均比例为31%。因此，与病理学领域女性比例的全国数据相比，病理学领域的女性获奖者并未占比过低。然而，女性获奖者在各个奖项中的分布表明，在声望较低的研究奖和博士奖中，女性代表人数越来越多，而在荣誉奖（女性占比0%）和声望较高的奖项（女性占比17%）中，男性获奖者占很大比例。
