• Acad Emerg Med · Nov 2023

    Spotlighting the Imbalance: Gender Disparities Among Speakers and Awardees at Pediatric Emergency Medicine Conferences.

    • Kathleen G Reichard, Deborah A Levine, Jennifer Reed, Lindsey Barrick-Groskopf, Kirsten Bechtel, Gena Cooper, Jeannine E Hall, Marjorie L White, and Melissa L Langhan.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Nyack, New York, USA.
    • Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Nov 1; 30 (11): 113811431138-1143.

    BackgroundThere are wide variations in the gender makeup of speakers at national pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) conferences with no significant change in recent years.ObjectiveGender disparities exist among national speakers and award recipients. PEM represents the intersection of pediatrics, a female-dominated specialty with approximately 58% women, and emergency medicine, a male-dominated specialty. We describe the proportion of women speakers and award recipients at two national PEM conferences, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Emergency Medicine (SOEM) and the Advanced PEM Assembly (APEMA), to the AAP National Conference & Exhibition (NCE), a national pediatric conference.MethodsData from SOEM and APEMA, obtained from 2016 to 2021 were compared to the 2021 NCE. Invited speakers, abstract presenters, and award recipients were identified. Gender was determined by searching each individual's name for self-identification. Gender proportions were compared across conferences, speaker type, and year.ResultsCompared to the NCE, a significantly smaller proportion of women were invited speakers at APEMA (NCE 59.9% vs. APEMA 38.8%, p < 0.001), but similar proportions of women were invited speakers (53.9%, p = 0.178) and awardees at SOEM (50% vs. 50%, p = 1.0). A larger number of women were SOEM abstract presenters than invited speakers (63.3% vs. 53.9%, p = 0.041). Between 2016 and 2021, the proportion of women invited speakers (SOEM, p = 0.744; APEMA, p = 0.947) or abstract presenters (SOEM, p = 0.632) did not significantly change.ConclusionsCompared to NCE, women are underrepresented as speakers at APEMA, but not at SOEM. Abstract presenters are more likely to be women compared to invited speakers. While awards appear equally distributed, recipients do not mirror the proportion of women in PEM. Conference organizers and leaders in PEM should ensure gender equity in national recognition.© 2023 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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