Gabriela R Brandão, Sarah Bueno Motter, Júlia Iaroseski, Bruna Oliveira Trindade, Candida Mozzaquatro de Assis Brasil, Giovanna Severino Rodrigues, Rafaela de Andrade, Izadora Bouzeid Estacia da Silveira, Aline Deborah de Moraes, Marília Paz de Paiva
INTRODUCTION: There is a gender gap in the surgical field worldwide. Brazil and low- and middle-income countries generally tend to have a more profound gap. Therefore, we aim to assess the gender distribution in Brazilian surgical residencies. METHODS: From a national residencies' database, we collected residency entering years, names, and surgical subspecialties. We classified gender from the names using Gender API software and performed linear regression, binomial, and chi-square tests...
September 8, 2023: Journal of Surgical Research