Positive and negative influences on female first authorship emergency medicine research

Abstract

In academic emergency medicine, female gender has been associated with fewer scholarly opportunities, fewer awards, and lower salaries.[1] First authorship of original research helps to determine rank and salary in academic medicine. Current data suggests a general under‐representation of female first authors in medical literature from multiple specialties. Women are less likely to be listed as first author in the case of co‐first authorship in high‐impact medical journals.[2] Men outnumber women at all tiers of peer review, ranging from reviewers to editors.[3] With this background in mind, we sought to compare responses of male and female first authors regarding their perceptions of the factors that helped or hindered their first author status in Emergency Medicine.

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