Shariff Mariam, Kumar Ashish, Stulak John
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
Am J Surg. 2025 Mar;241:116064. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.116064. Epub 2024 Oct 29.
Females continue to be underrepresented in academia. An analysis of gender representation among presidents of cardiothoracic surgery societies worldwide was performed.
A comprehensive search was performed to identify cardiothoracic surgical societies present worldwide and divided by regions. Respective Society's official webpage was searched to extract data on past and present presidents. Gender was determined and verified via publicly available online profiles. Proportions and respective 95 % confidence interval(CI) were calculated using Binomial exact calculation.
A total of 34 cardiothoracic surgery societies were identified globally, of which only 16 provided information on past presidents in the public domain. A total of 563 past and current society presidents were identified. Women constituted only 16 [2.84 %; 95 % confidence interval: 1.63 %; 4.57 %] presidents. The first-ever women president was appointed in the year 2007 by the STSA during the 54th Annual meeting.
Stark lag persists in gender representation of presidential roles among the cardiothoracic societies globally.
女性在学术界的代表性仍然不足。对全球心胸外科学会主席的性别代表性进行了分析。
进行全面检索，以确定全球存在的心胸外科学会，并按地区划分。搜索各学会的官方网页，以提取历任和现任主席的数据。通过公开的在线资料确定并核实性别。使用二项式精确计算法计算比例及各自的95%置信区间（CI）。
全球共确定了34个心胸外科学会，其中只有16个在公共领域提供了历任主席的信息。共确定了563位历任和现任学会主席。女性仅占16位主席[2.84%；95%置信区间：1.63%；4.57%]。2007年，STSA在第54届年会上任命了首位女性主席。
全球心胸外科学会主席职位的性别代表性仍然存在明显滞后。
