Association Between the Proportion of Women on a Conference Planning Committee and the Proportion of Women Speakers at Medical Conferences

Kirstie C Lithgow; Madalene Earp; Aleem Bharwani; Sarah Fletcher; Shannon M Ruzycki

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0677

Association Between the Proportion of Women on a Conference Planning Committee and the Proportion of Women Speakers at Medical Conferences

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Mar 2;3(3):e200677. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0677.

Authors

Kirstie C Lithgow¹, Madalene Earp², Aleem Bharwani³, Sarah Fletcher⁴, Shannon M Ruzycki^{3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the association of the proportion of women on a medical conference planning committee with the proportion of women speakers at the conference.

MeSH terms

Congresses as Topic / organization & administration*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
North America
Physicians, Women / supply & distribution*
Planning Techniques*
Retrospective Studies