TY - JOUR
T1 - Achieving Speaker Gender Equity at the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting
T2 - The Effect of Female Session Coordinators
AU - Ghatan, Christine E.
AU - Altamirano, Jonathan
AU - Fassiotto, Magali
AU - Perez, Marcelina G.
AU - Maldonado, Yvonne
AU - Josephs, Shellie
AU - Sze, Daniel Y.
AU - Kothary, Nishita
N1 - Funding Information:
N.K. receives research grants from Siemens (Siemens Healthcare) and EchoPixel (Santa Clara, California). None of the other authors have identified a conflict of interest.
Funding Information:
N.K. receives research grants from Siemens (Siemens Healthcare) and EchoPixel (Santa Clara, California). None of the other authors have identified a conflict of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 SIR
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Purpose: To examine the impact of targeted efforts to increase the number of female speakers at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) by reporting gender trends for invited faculty in 2017/2018 vs 2016. Materials and Methods: Faculty rosters for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 SIR ASMs were stratified by gender to quantify female representation at plenary sessions, categorical courses, symposia, self-assessment modules, and “meet-the-expert” sessions. Keynote events, scientific abstract presentations, and award ceremonies were excluded. In 2017, the SIR Annual Meeting Committee issued requirements for coordinators to invite selected women as speakers. Session coordinators are responsible for issuing speaker invitations, and invited speakers have the option to decline. Results: Years 2017 and 2018 showed increases in female speaker representation, with women delivering 13% (89 of 687) and 14% (85 of 605) of all assigned presentations, compared with 9% in 2016 (46 of 514; P = .03 and P = .01, respectively). Gender diversity correlated with the gender of the session coordinator(s). When averaged over a 3-year period, female speakers constituted 7% of the speaker roster (112 of 1,504 presentations) for sessions led by an all-male coordinator team, compared with 36% (108 of 302) for sessions led by at least 1 female coordinator (P < .0001). Results of the linear regression model confirmed the effect of coordinator team gender composition (P < .0001). Conclusions: Having a woman as a session coordinator increased female speaker participation, which suggests that the inclusion of more women as coordinators is one mechanism for achieving gender balance at scientific meetings.
AB - Purpose: To examine the impact of targeted efforts to increase the number of female speakers at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) by reporting gender trends for invited faculty in 2017/2018 vs 2016. Materials and Methods: Faculty rosters for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 SIR ASMs were stratified by gender to quantify female representation at plenary sessions, categorical courses, symposia, self-assessment modules, and “meet-the-expert” sessions. Keynote events, scientific abstract presentations, and award ceremonies were excluded. In 2017, the SIR Annual Meeting Committee issued requirements for coordinators to invite selected women as speakers. Session coordinators are responsible for issuing speaker invitations, and invited speakers have the option to decline. Results: Years 2017 and 2018 showed increases in female speaker representation, with women delivering 13% (89 of 687) and 14% (85 of 605) of all assigned presentations, compared with 9% in 2016 (46 of 514; P = .03 and P = .01, respectively). Gender diversity correlated with the gender of the session coordinator(s). When averaged over a 3-year period, female speakers constituted 7% of the speaker roster (112 of 1,504 presentations) for sessions led by an all-male coordinator team, compared with 36% (108 of 302) for sessions led by at least 1 female coordinator (P < .0001). Results of the linear regression model confirmed the effect of coordinator team gender composition (P < .0001). Conclusions: Having a woman as a session coordinator increased female speaker participation, which suggests that the inclusion of more women as coordinators is one mechanism for achieving gender balance at scientific meetings.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.07.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 31587951
AN - SCOPUS:85072775119
SN - 1051-0443
VL - 30
SP - 1870
EP - 1875
JO - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
JF - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
IS - 11
ER -