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Carley S, Carden R, Riley R, et al. Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?. Emerg Med J. 2016;33(10):681-3doi: 10.1136/emermed-2015-205581.
Carley, S., Carden, R., Riley, R., May, N., Hruska, K., Beardsell, I., Johnston, M., & Body, R. (2016). Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?. Emergency medicine journal : EMJ, 33(10), 681-3. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-205581
Carley, Simon, et al. "Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?." Emergency medicine journal : EMJ vol. 33,10 (2016): 681-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-205581
Carley S, Carden R, Riley R, May N, Hruska K, Beardsell I, Johnston M, Body R. Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?. Emerg Med J. 2016 Oct;33(10):681-3. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2015-205581. Epub 2016 Aug 17. PMID: 27534977.
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Emerg Med J. 2016 Oct;33(10):681-3. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2015-205581. Epub 2016 Aug 17.

Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?.

Emergency medicine journal : EMJ

Simon Carley, Richard Carden, Rebecca Riley, Natalie May, Katrin Hruska, Iain Beardsell, Michelle Johnston, Richard Body

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Evidence Based Emergency Care, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Department of Emergency Medicine, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Södertälje Hospital, Södertälje, Sweden.
  4. Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
  6. Department of Emergency Medicine, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK.

PMID: 27534977 DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2015-205581

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: There is a perception that women are under-represented as speakers at emergency medicine (EM) conferences. We aimed to evaluate the ratio of male to female speakers and the proportion of presenting time by gender at major international EM conferences.

METHODS: Conference programmes of the major English-speaking EM conferences occurring from 2014 to 2015 were obtained. The number of presentations, the gender of the speaker and the duration of each presentation were recorded.

RESULTS: We analysed eight major EM conferences. These included 2382 presentations, of which 29.9% (range 22.5%-40.9%) were given by women. In total, 56 104 min of presentations were analysed, of which 27.6% (range 21%-36.7%) were delivered by women. On average, presentations by women were 95 s shorter than presentations by men (23 vs 21 min 25 s).

CONCLUSIONS: Male speakers exceed female speakers at major EM conferences. The reasons for this imbalance are likely complex and multifactorial and may reflect the gender imbalance within the specialty.

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Keywords: communications; education; management; management, HR management

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