Objective: This study aims to summarize the evidence concerning the barriers that exist to
the career progression of women in surgery and to provide potential solutions to overcome …

Background: Over the past twenty years explicit gender bias toward women in surgery has
been replaced by more subtle barriers, which represent indirect forms of discrimination and …

Objectives To compare gender diversity between UK surgical specialties, assess trends over
time, and estimate when gender parity might be achieved. Design Observational study …

Background Despite a significant growth of women trainees in cardiothoracic surgery
recently, women remain a minority of cardiothoracic surgeons and hold a minority of …

Importance Female surgeons are still in the minority worldwide, and highlighting gender
differences in surgery is important in understanding and reducing inequities within the …

Background Gender disparity in surgery remains an issue worldwide. We analysed the
trends in gender distribution in surgical subspecialties across Australia and New Zealand …

Objective: To investigate the association between surgeon-anesthesiologist sex
discordance and patient mortality after noncardiac surgery. Background: Evidence suggests …

Aim To identify the current surgical management of aphakia and the outcomes and
complications of each technique. Methods This cross-sectional study included ophthalmic …

Introduction Despite women being under-represented in academic surgery, there is no
publicly accessible repository describing the distribution of surgeons by sex and specialty in …

Five billion people around the world lack access to safe and affordable surgical, anaesthetic,
and obstetric care. There is a link between countries in which women are underrepresented …