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Gender disparity in academic emergency radiology

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Abstract

Objective

This study is intended to better understand how academic productivity and career advancement differs between men and women emergency radiologists in academic practices.

Materials and methods

Parameters of academic achievement were measured, including number of citations, number of publications, and h-index, while also collecting information on academic and leadership ranking among emergency radiologists in North America.

Results

In emergency radiology, there are significantly fewer women than men (22.2% vs 77.8%). Of these women, the greatest proportion of women held the lower academic rank of assistant professor (95.4%). Female assistant professors had a higher h-index than men at the same rank (4 vs 2), but it was not statistically significantly higher. There was no significant difference between gender and academic (p = 0.089) or leadership (p = 0.586) rankings.

Conclusion

This study provides further evidence that gender disparity persists in emergency radiology, with women achieving less upward academic career mobility than men, despite better academic productivity in the earlier stages of their careers. The academic productivity of emergency radiologists at the rank of assistant professor is significantly higher for women than men.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Frank Battaglia

  2. Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Samad Shah, Sabeena Jalal, Kiran Khurshid, Savvas Nicolaou & Faisal Khosa

  3. Department of Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Nupur Verma

  4. Department of Radiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Sravanthi Reddy

  5. Department of Radiology, University of Texas John P and Kathrine G McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

    Susan John

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Battaglia, F., Shah, S., Jalal, S. et al. Gender disparity in academic emergency radiology. Emerg Radiol 26, 21–28 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-018-1642-7

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