Because it’s 2018: women in Canadian anesthesiology
2018; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 65; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/s12630-018-1126-y
ISSN1496-8975
Autores Tópico(s)Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
ResumoThe Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) Honour Award recipients for 2018 were announced on 8 March, International Women's Day.The recipients are all extremely deserving of recognition and they all have a clear history of impressive accomplishments.They all have something else in common: their gender.Each award recipient is a man.Upon closer inspection of past Honour Award recipients, it becomes clear that an overwhelming majority of the recipients have been men.The Research Recognition award has been handed out 25 times and has been won by five (20%) women.A woman has won the Clinical Teacher award four (24%) times in 17 years.The John Bradley Young Educator Award, awarded 12 times since its inception, has never been won by a woman.The Clinical Practitioner Award has been given out 13 times, also never once to a woman.The CAS's prestigious Gold Medal, given in recognition of excellence in matters related to anesthesia, has been given to only four (7%) women in the 54 times since it was first awarded in 1962.That said, since the
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