RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences? JF Emergency Medicine Journal JO Emerg Med J FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine SP 681 OP 683 DO 10.1136/emermed-2015-205581 VO 33 IS 10 A1 Simon Carley A1 Richard Carden A1 Rebecca Riley A1 Natalie May A1 Katrin Hruska A1 Iain Beardsell A1 Michelle Johnston A1 Richard Body YR 2016 UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10/681.abstract AB Introduction There is a perception that women are under-represented as speakers at emergency medicine (EM) conferences. We aimed to evaluate the ratio of male to female speakers and the proportion of presenting time by gender at major international EM conferences.Methods Conference programmes of the major English-speaking EM conferences occurring from 2014 to 2015 were obtained. The number of presentations, the gender of the speaker and the duration of each presentation were recorded.Results We analysed eight major EM conferences. These included 2382 presentations, of which 29.9% (range 22.5%–40.9%) were given by women. In total, 56 104 min of presentations were analysed, of which 27.6% (range 21%–36.7%) were delivered by women. On average, presentations by women were 95 s shorter than presentations by men (23 vs 21 min 25 s).Conclusions Male speakers exceed female speakers at major EM conferences. The reasons for this imbalance are likely complex and multifactorial and may reflect the gender imbalance within the specialty.