Abstract
Background: Studies have shown that women in emergency medicine (EM) lag behind their
male counterparts in academic productivity. Objectives: We compared the proportion
of female attending physicians from EM academic programs to the proportion of female
first or second authors of original scientific manuscripts and case reports from four
major EM journals in a single year. Methods: We used a retrospective cross-sectional
design. Original scientific manuscripts and case reports from four major EM journals
published in 2005: Academic Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency
Medicine, and Journal of Emergency Medicine were reviewed to determine genders of first and second authors. The proportion of
female first or second authorship was then compared to the proportion of female EM
attending physicians from 134 academic EM programs in the United States. Data were
analyzed using Pearson's chi-squared and Clopper-Pearson binomial confidence intervals
as appropriate. A p-value of ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. Results: The percentage of female faculty;
940/3571 (26.32%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 24.9–27.8%) vs. the percentage of female
first or second authorship 289/1123 (25.73%, 95% CI 23.3–28.4%) was not statistically
significant (p = 0.562). There was no difference in the proportion of male and female authors with
multiple manuscripts (p = 0.889). Conclusions: As measured by first and second authorship, there was no discrepancy
between the proportion of female EM faculty and the proportion of female authorship
in EM literature from 2005.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 26, 2010
Accepted:
April 7,
2010
Received in revised form:
January 3,
2010
Received:
September 18,
2009
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