- 著者
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Nobuo SUGO
Sayaka TERAZONO
Chie MATSUURA
Yutaka FUCHINOUE
Yuki SAKAEYAMA
Mitsuyoshi ABE
Masataka MIKAI
Syuhei KUBOTA
Kosuke KONDO
Shoko SHIMOKAWA
Taketoshi MAEHARA
Hiroyoshi AKUTSU
Fusao IKAWA
Yukiko ENOMOTO
Kazuko KAMIYA
Satoshi KURODA
Hideo TAKESHIMA
Noriko TAMURA
Tomohito HISHIKAWA
Masazumi FUJII
Takamitsu FUJIMAKI
Tetsuyoshi HORIUCHI
Junkoh YAMAMOTO
Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
Yoko KATO
- 出版者
- The Japan Neurosurgical Society
- 雑誌
- Neurologia medico-chirurgica (ISSN:04708105)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.2023-0051, (Released:2023-07-25)
- 参考文献数
- 26
This study aims to evaluate the academic activities of female neurosurgeons at all branch meetings of the Japan Neurosurgical Society and identify related issues they encountered. The programs of all seven branch meetings of the Japan Neurosurgical Society (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku/Shikoku, and Kyushu) were used to determine the number of presentations and chairpersons by sex. The covered period was from January 2008 to December 2020, which was available for viewing during the survey. Of note, only the Kinki branch used data from January 2008 to December 2019. The Neurologia Medico-chirurgica (NMC), the journal of the Japan Neurosurgical Society, was also reviewed to identify publication achievements during the same period. In all seven branches, the percentage of presentations given by female physicians increased from 7.9% in 2008 to 9.6% in 2020 (p < 0.05).Conversely, the percentage of female chairpersons in all branch meetings did not change over time and it was significantly lower (1.1%) than that of female presenters (7.9%) for all branch meetings combined in over 13 years (p < 0.01). In the NMC, the number of articles with female physicians as first authors did not increase or decrease over the years. We conclude that efforts to smoothly promote female neurosurgeons as chairpersons and increase the number of female first authors are necessary to facilitate their academic activities.