Purpose Research has shown that barriers to career success in academic medicine
disproportionately affect women. These barriers include inadequate mentoring, which may …

Purpose In recent decades, women have achieved greater representation in ophthalmology.
Globally, women now constitute approximately 25%-30% of ophthalmologists and 35%-45 …

Purpose To identify the role of gender and other factors in influencing ophthalmologists'
compensation. Design Cross-sectional study. Participants US practicing ophthalmologists …

Introduction In December 2017, Lancet called for gender inequality investigations. Holding
other factors constant, trends over time for significant author (ie, first, second, last or any of …

Importance Individuals with perceived experience and expertise are invited by editorial
boards to provide commentary through editorials. Female representation among editorialists …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic increased the gender gap in academic publishing.
This study assesses COVID-19's impact on ophthalmology gender authorship distribution …

Background The number of females in ophthalmology has steadily increased over recent
decades. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether there is a difference in procedural …

Background The proportion of women in medicine, especially in pediatrics, is noticeably
increasing. Yet, leadership positions are predominantly occupied by men. Methods …

Women's contributions to the medical field have increased substantially over the past 4
decades but women remain underrepresented. Since research productivity is an important …

As the field of ophthalmology has evolved in the last several decades, so has the gender
distribution of ophthalmologists. We conducted a narrative review to further characterise the …