Women are a minority on the editorial boards of Latin American and Caribbean scientific journals focused on surgery, anesthesiology, and obstetrics and gynecology.
"Women held 17% of total editorial board positions in the areas mentioned," wrote the authors of one of the first studies on the subject in Latin America, which recently was published by the"We arrived at this number by looking at the scientific journals we analyzed," researcher Letícia Nunes Campos, a graduate student affiliated with the Department of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, explained toCampos is coauthor of the study in...
In academic roles, the authors verified that more women had peer‑reviewer roles than external academic editorial positions and national editorial board positions . Similarly, women held more nonacademic positions , such as visual abstract creative director, than administrative ones . The authors concluded that the lack of diversity on editorial boards constitutes a major drawback not only to women's career progression, but also to journals' output. According to the study, integrating women into editorial boards can enhance journals' performance, since work groups that are socially diverse develop higher‑quality research and innovations, receive more citations and funding, and have more efficient organization.
In nonsurgical specialties, the data are equally discrepant. In Latin America, for example, a study by Aquino-Canchari et al. assessed journals in other areas of medicine and determined that women hold only 12.9% of editorial board positions.
Make information public regarding the number of women on editorial boards and their respective positions, as well as criteria for recruitment and selection .
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