Gender Inequality

Men were more likely than women to use positive terms when presenting their research findings, especially in high-impact journals, according to a study published in BMJ.

Although there are considerable intersectional inequalities among various age, gender and socioeconomic groups in the likelihood of diagnosis for osteoarthritis, gout and rheumatoid arthritis, no such inequalities were found for spondyloarthritis diagnosis, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & Research.

PHILADELPHIA — More than 40% of U.S. medical students and physicians-in-training over the past 2 decades have been female.

Oncologic randomized clinical trials published between 2003 and 2018 exhibited a low rate of female corresponding authorship in relation to the overall percentage of female academic oncologists during the period, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.