Dymore-Brown Laura-Anne, Ahluwalia Amrit, Dangoisse Carole, Zaman Faryal, Sereeyotin Jariya, Mehta Sangeeta, Metaxa Victoria
Department of Critical Care, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Crit Care Explor. 2024 Apr 3;6(4):e1075. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001075. eCollection 2024 Apr.
This commentary's objective was to identify whether female representation at critical care conferences has improved since our previous publication in 2018. We audited the scientific programs from three international (International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine [ISICEM], European Society of Intensive Care Medicine [ESICM], and Society of Critical Care Medicine [SCCM]) and two national (State of the Art [SOA] and Critical Care Canada Forum) critical care conferences from the years 2017 to 2022. We collected data on the number of female faculty members and categorized them into physicians, nurses, allied health professions (AHPs), and other. Across all conferences, there was an increased representation of females as speakers and moderators over the 6 years. However, at each conference, male speakers outnumbered female speakers. Only two conferences achieved gender parity in speakers, SCCM in 2021 (48% female) and 2022 and SOA in 2022 (48% female). These conferences also had the highest representation of female nursing and AHP speakers (25% in SCCM, 2021; 19% in SOA, 2022). While there was a statistically significant increase in female speakers ( < 0.01) in 2022 compared with 2016, there was a persistent gender gap in the representation of men and female physicians. While the proportion of female moderators increased in each conference every year, the increase was statistically only significant for ISICEM, ESICM, and SCCM ( < 0.05). The proportion of female nurses and AHP speakers increased in 2022 compared with 2016 ( < 0.0001) but their overall representation was low with the highest proportion (25%) in the 2022 SCCM conference and the lowest (0.5%) in the 2017 ISICEM conference. This follow-up study demonstrates a narrowing but persisting gender gap in the studied critical care conferences. Thus, a commitment toward minimizing gender inequalities is warranted.
本评论的目的是确定自我们2018年上次发表以来，重症监护会议上女性代表比例是否有所提高。我们审核了2017年至2022年期间三个国际（重症监护与急诊医学国际研讨会[ISICEM]、欧洲重症监护医学学会[ESICM]和危重病医学会[SCCM]）和两个国家（最新技术[SOA]和加拿大重症监护论坛）重症监护会议的科学项目。我们收集了女性教员的数量数据，并将她们分为医生、护士、专职医疗人员（AHPs）和其他人员。在所有会议中，6年来女性作为演讲者和主持人的比例有所增加。然而，在每次会议上，男性演讲者的数量都超过女性演讲者。只有两个会议在演讲者性别比例上实现了平等，即2021年和2022年的SCCM会议（女性占48%）以及2022年的SOA会议（女性占48%）。这些会议中女性护士和专职医疗人员演讲者的比例也最高（2021年SCCM会议中占25%；2022年SOA会议中占19%）。虽然与2016年相比，2022年女性演讲者数量有统计学意义的增加（<0.01），但男性和女性医生的代表比例仍存在持续的性别差距。虽然每年每个会议中女性主持人的比例都在增加，但只有ISICEM、ESICM和SCCM会议的增加具有统计学意义（<0.05）。与2016年相比，2022年女性护士和专职医疗人员演讲者的比例有所增加（<0.0001），但她们的总体比例较低，2022年SCCM会议中比例最高（25%），2017年ISICEM会议中比例最低（0.5%）。这项后续研究表明，在所研究的重症监护会议中，性别差距正在缩小但仍然存在。因此，有必要致力于将性别不平等降至最低。
