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  • Item type:Publication,
    Increase in the percentage of female authors in the international psychiatric literature since 1970
    (2008)
    Opgenhaffen, M.
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    Vansteelandt, K.
    ;
    Germeau, P.
    ;
    Pieters, G.
    BACKGROUND: The participation of women in medicine and psychiatry is increasing. AIM: To find out whether this trend is also refected in the international psychiatric literature. METHOD: We took steps to discover the gender of the first and the last author as listed below the title of 290 articles sampled at random jrom three leading psychiatricjournals published between 1970 and 2007. RESULTS: Women turned out to be underrepresented as the first or last author of these psychiatric articles; this conclusion was also found to apply to the first and last authors who were medical authors. Whereas the proportion of female first authors had increased significantly since 1970 and had reached almost 50% in 2007, there had been no such inaease as far as last authors were concerned. CONCLUSION: In the psychiatric literature studied, the proportion of female first authors rose to almost 50%.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Increase of the proportion of female physicians publishing in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (1948-1998); stable proportion of male physicians
    (2000)
    Van Duursen, R.A.A.
    ;
    Hart, W.
    ;
    Overbeke, A.J.P.M.
    Objective. To determine the number of female authors in six volumes of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG) and the number of physicians who contributed to at least one article in those volumes. Design. Retrospective. Method. We counted the number of articles in the NTvG in 10 different article categories in volumes 1948, 1958, 1968, 1978, 1988 and 1998. The number of authors and the sex and profession of the authors were registered. No author was counted more than once per volume. The results were compared with the number of physicians in the Netherlands in those years. Results. In the first 4 volumes studied 3-5% of the total number of authors were female (n = 19; 22; 21; 16); this increased to 10 and 21% in 1988 (125) and 1998 (326). The percentage of female physicians who contributed to at least one article in one volume was 0,7% in 1948 (5) and 1958 (9), and increased to 1,0 (83) and 1,4% (211) in 1988 and 1998. The percentage of male physicians who contributed to at least one article fluctuated between 2,4 (471) and 3,1% (325) between 1958 and 1998. The mean number of authors per article increased from 1,2 in 1948 (354 articles) to 3,3 in 1998 (472 articles). Conclusion. The number of female authors steadily increased in the past fifty years. The percentage of female physicians that contributed to at least one article in the NTvG doubled in the volumes investigated, while the percentage of male physicians remained stable.