• Jessica L Weaver, Alan Smith, and Carrie A Sims.
• University of Pennsylvania Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, 51 N 39th St, MOB 1st floor Suite 120, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. Electronic address: jlweaver@ucsd.edu.
• Am. J. Surg. 2021 Jan 1; 221 (1): 222-226.

BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the roles of women at national trauma meetings.MethodsAvailable scientific programs for the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (2013-19), Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (2010-19), and Western Trauma Association (2010-19) as well as the Scudder Oration at the American College of Surgeons (1963-2019), were reviewed for names of participants and categorized by gender.ResultsWomen made up 963 of 2746 (35.1%) of presenters, 252 of 1020 (24.7%) of discussants, 116 of 622 (18.6%) of moderators of scientific sessions, 189 of 707 (26.7%) of panelists, and 69 of 254 (27.2%) of panel moderators. Only 12 of 126 (9.5%) of named lectures or presidential addresses were given by women.ConclusionsThe low rate of female named speakers suggests that there remains a "glass ceiling" when it comes to upper-level participation in national trauma meetings.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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