Although there have been improvements in the ratio of women entering the EMS workforce, gender representation has improved at a slower rate for paramedics compared to emergency medical technicians (EMTs). However, little is known if similar gender disparities impact their out-of-hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) colleagues.
Gender disparities between Emergency Medicine physicians with regards to salary, promotion, and scholarly recognition as national conference speakers have been well-documented.
Intentional effort is required to achieve parity, and such efforts could include appointing more women to organising committees of scientific meetings. Visible role models are important in the pursuit of gender equity in surgery in order to break down stereotypes and the hidden curriculum. Female conveners were 3 times more likely to invite female speakers than male conveners ( p < 0.001) and were 20 times more likely to invite female chairs than male conveners ( p < 0.001). Trend analysis of distribution was performed, and a generalized linear mixed model was used to investigate the effect of the gender of the conveners on gender of session chairpersons and speakers.īetween 20, there were non-significant increases in female speakers invited to speak from 14.9 to 21.7% ( p = 0.064) and female conveners appointed from 11 to 19% ( p = 0.115), but there was a significant increase in female chairs from 9.6 to 21.6% p < 0.001). RACS ASC programmes from 2013 to 2018 were retrospectively analysed, examining the gender distribution of speakers, chairpersons and conveners. We evaluated the trend in gender distribution of participants at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Annual Scientific Congress (ASC) and whether there was a correlation between the gender distribution of the organising committee and speakers and chairpersons invited to attend.
Lack of role models is touted as one of a myriad of factors that perpetuate gender imbalance, particularly in the field of surgery. Disparities in gender representation at medical meetings have been documented despite women representing half of medical school graduating classes.
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