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When will we have enough women speakers in emergency medicine?
  1. Dara Kass1,
  2. Esther K Choo2
  1. 1Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
  2. 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dara Kass, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 462 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA; dara.kass{at}nyumc.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2016-206088

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    In an observational study published in EMJ, Carley et al1 asked “Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?” The authors analysed the apparent gender of speakers at eight major emergency medicine (EM) conferences from 2014 to 2015. They found that women presenters gave 29.9% of the talks occupying 27.6% of the total speaking time.

    The group then compared these percentages to the mean percentage of the EM workforce that is female (26.2%) and concluded that the percentage of women speaking is likely representative of the gender distribution in EM, not necessarily gender bias in speaker selection.

    The authors do not describe their means of identifying the women in the …

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    • Twitter Follow Dara Kass at @darakass and Esther Choo at @choo_ek

    • Contributors DK conceived the response and the FemInEM speakers bureau. Both authors contributed substantially to the revision of the manuscript. DK takes responsibility for the manuscript as a whole.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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