Doctors won’t see gender parity in most surgical specialties during their lifetime: Aussie studyÂ
It will be 186 years before numbers of female and male orthopaedic surgeons are the same, authors predict.
It will take eight generations, or more than 180 years, before the number of female orthopaedic and cardiothoracic surgeons is the same as their male colleagues, Australian researchers predict.
They have calculated the expected year to reach gender parity in nine surgical subspecialties, based on the current pace of women entering each field.
Their study has found paediatric surgery, where women accounted for 30% of active surgeons in 2021, would be the first to reach gender parity, but not for another 23 years.
In contrast, the male-dominated orthopaedic subspecialty — where women made up only 5.5% of active surgeons — would not be reached for another 186 years, by 2209.
