William B Counter1, Kiran Khurshid2, Sabeena Jalal2, Mauricio Castillo3, Ammie M White4, Hansel J Otero4, Savvas Nicolaou2, Faisal Khosa5. 1. Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 2. Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 12th Avenue W, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1M9, Canada. 3. Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 5. Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 12th Avenue W, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 1M9, Canada. Electronic address: faisal.khosa@vch.ca.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: It is currently unknown whether efforts in recent years to create equal opportunities for female faculty in academic medicine have succeeded. We looked at faculty members in academic pediatric radiology departments across the United States and Canada to assess for evidence of gender disparities and differences in academic performance between males and females. METHODS: The analysis included diagnostic radiology programs across the United States and Canada, as specified by the American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA Online) and the Canadian Resident Matching Service website. The Scopus database was used to retrieve the H-index, number of publications, and number of citations for each faculty member. We examined the distribution of male and female faculty members across geographical regions, academic ranks, and leadership roles. Academic performance was also compared. RESULTS: Across all regions and academic ranks, disparities exist between the number of male and female faculty members. The greatest disparity was found amongst the professor rank, where more than 70% of positions were occupied by males. Female professors were found to demonstrate similar levels of academic performance compared to their male counterparts, although this parity was not observed amongst assistant and associate professors. CONCLUSION: Women occupied almost half (46.6%) of the total academic pediatric radiology workforce, despite having been previously shown to make up only 21% of radiologists. However, gender disparities currently exist among academic pediatric radiology faculty, with a significantly higher percentage of men in pediatric radiology faculty positions. Women, however, currently occupy a greater percentage of leadership positions compared to men, even though the majority of senior academic ranks are held by men.
OBJECTIVE: It is currently unknown whether efforts in recent years to create equal opportunities for female faculty in academic medicine have succeeded. We looked at faculty members in academic pediatric radiology departments across the United States and Canada to assess for evidence of gender disparities and differences in academic performance between males and females. METHODS: The analysis included diagnostic radiology programs across the United States and Canada, as specified by the American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA Online) and the Canadian Resident Matching Service website. The Scopus database was used to retrieve the H-index, number of publications, and number of citations for each faculty member. We examined the distribution of male and female faculty members across geographical regions, academic ranks, and leadership roles. Academic performance was also compared. RESULTS: Across all regions and academic ranks, disparities exist between the number of male and female faculty members. The greatest disparity was found amongst the professor rank, where more than 70% of positions were occupied by males. Female professors were found to demonstrate similar levels of academic performance compared to their male counterparts, although this parity was not observed amongst assistant and associate professors. CONCLUSION:Women occupied almost half (46.6%) of the total academic pediatric radiology workforce, despite having been previously shown to make up only 21% of radiologists. However, gender disparities currently exist among academic pediatric radiology faculty, with a significantly higher percentage of men in pediatric radiology faculty positions. Women, however, currently occupy a greater percentage of leadership positions compared to men, even though the majority of senior academic ranks are held by men.
Authors: Chaitanya Shah; Muhammad H Tiwana; Shilpa Chatterjee; Mehr Jain; Ola Lemanowicz; Sabeen Tiwana; Saleh Fares; Javed Siddiqi; Ahmed B Alwazzan; Faisal Khosa Journal: Cureus Date: 2022-04-12
Authors: Alexandra Foust; Patrick R Johnston; Joanna Kasznia-Brown; Winnie C Chu; Pilar Garcia-Pena; Pedro Daltro; Karuna M Das; Domen Plut; Tracy Kilborn; Abbey J Winant; Edward Y Lee Journal: Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging Date: 2020-09-17