How to get female doctors to speak up at medical events
Getting rid of all male panels and letting women ask the first question work wonders, a UK study shows
Women are less likely to take part in medical conferences than men, but a simple intervention may help, a UK study shows.
Dr Victoria Salem, an endocrinologist at Imperial College London, is the lead author of a study that compared women’s participation at the Society for Endocrinology’s annual conference across two years.
Her research showed women spoke significantly less than men, at the society’s 2017 meeting.
Although nearly half of the conference attendees were women, they asked less than one quarter of the questions, the study showed.
