Female Surgeons for Obesity Treatment: a Snapshot Sampling in Academic Productivity : The Role of Women in Obesity Surgery
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2022
Author(s)
Apostolopoulou, Aikaterini
Fyntanidou, Barbara
Shrewsbury, Anne D.
Kotzampassi, Katerina
Language
English
View point(s)
Global
Institutional
Discipline(s)
Abstract
The proportion of females choosing a career in surgery is lower than that of males. Through the Obesity Surgery and SOARD journals of 2018-2020, the number of articles with female first/senior authors was identified and their characteristics were assessed. Almost 40% of the published papers were written by females, being mostly original and from University Hospitals, although the difference in the numbers between journals was prominent (p = 0.011). Articles with a female as first author had a female or male as senior, at a ratio 1:2, while less than 10% of female senior authors had a male as first. The number of females as corresponding authors in SOARD was significantly higher (p < 0.001). The findings of the present study underline the existing gender inequity in bariatric surgery.
Journal
Obesity Surgery
ISSN
1708-0428
Volume
32
Issue
5
Pagination
1741-1747