Jacobs Jeremy W, Adkins Brian D, Stephens Laura D, Woo Jennifer S, Booth Garrett S
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Department of Pathology, Division of Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
Transfus Med Rev. 2022 Apr;36(2):82-86. doi: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2022.04.001. Epub 2022 Apr 15.
Award recognition by medical societies contributes to professional development, career networking, and academic rank promotion. Previous research has demonstrated that men are the predominant recipients of medical society awards across multiple medical specialties; as such, we sought to understand whether women are underrepresented as award recipients amongst blood banking and transfusion medicine (BBTM) medical societies. We examined recipients of 10 total awards from the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) and the American Society for Apheresis. Additional evaluation of AABB's National Blood Foundation Hall of Fame inductees was conducted. Gender was determined via online review of pronouns, online photographs, and a web-based gender identification application. Award recipient gender was analyzed and coded independently by two authors, and any discrepancies were adjudicated by author consensus. Of the 330 AABB awards since 1954, significantly more have been conferred to men (81.5%, 269/330; P < .001). Of the 51 American Society for Apheresis awards presented since 1993, 64.7% (33/51; P = .23) have been conferred to men. Compared to the first 10 years of the AABB awards (1954-1964), there has been a significant increase in the proportion of women award recipients in the most recent decade (2010-2021) (18.5%, 5/27 vs 29.4%, 30/102; P < .001). However, additional temporal analysis of the modern era (2000-2021) revealed men have received significantly more AABB awards than women (77.4%, 144/186 vs 22.6%, 42/186; P < .001). Our findings highlight both historic and contemporary inequity for recognition of women within BBTM. Without improvement, gender parity among BBTM award recipients will take approximately 120 years (11% increase in women awardees in 60 years); thus, to ensure the BBTM field continues to progress, we must advocate for equity among all members, including but not limited to gender, race, and ethnicity. Strategies to enhance equity include transparency in the identities of award nominees, award recipients, and individuals on selection committees, the gender ratios of both award nominees and recipients, and implementation of methods for tracking individual demographics over time. These strategies would permit temporal analysis of the ratio of award nominee gender to award recipient gender, and assessment as to whether potential gender inequities improve over time.
医学协会的奖项认可有助于专业发展、职业人脉拓展和学术职级晋升。先前的研究表明，在多个医学专业领域，男性是医学协会奖项的主要获得者；因此，我们试图了解在血液银行与输血医学（BBTM）医学协会中，女性作为奖项获得者的代表性是否不足。我们调查了血液与生物疗法促进协会（AABB）和美国单采学会颁发的总共10个奖项的获得者。另外还对AABB国家血液基金会名人堂入选者进行了评估。通过在线查看代词、在线照片以及一个基于网络的性别识别应用程序来确定性别。两位作者独立分析并编码奖项获得者的性别，任何差异通过作者达成共识来裁决。自1954年以来的330个AABB奖项中，授予男性的显著更多（81.5%，269/330；P <.001）。自1993年以来颁发的51个美国单采学会奖项中，64.7%（33/51；P = 0.23）授予了男性。与AABB奖项的前10年（1954 - 1964年）相比，最近十年（2010 - 2021年）女性奖项获得者的比例有显著增加（18.5%，5/27对29.4%，30/102；P <.001）。然而，对现代时期（2000 - 2021年）的进一步时间分析显示，男性获得的AABB奖项显著多于女性（77.4%，144/186对22.6%，42/186；P <.001）。我们的研究结果凸显了BBTM领域在认可女性方面的历史和当代不平等。如果不加以改善，BBTM奖项获得者中的性别平等将需要大约120年（60年内女性获奖者增加11%）；因此，为确保BBTM领域持续发展，我们必须倡导所有成员之间的公平，包括但不限于性别、种族和族裔。增强公平性的策略包括在奖项提名者、获奖者以及评选委员会成员的身份方面保持透明，公布奖项提名者和获奖者的性别比例，以及实施长期跟踪个人人口统计学特征的方法。这些策略将允许对奖项提名者性别与获奖者性别的比例进行时间分析，并评估潜在的性别不平等是否随时间得到改善。
