Gender distribution in pathology journal editorial boards: a call to action

The article by Nguyen et al reveals that Pathology, like other medical specialties, has an underrepresentation of women authors,1–7 editorial board members7–10 and editors in chiefs7–11 (EICs) of our journals. While it would be easy to feel discouraged by these findings, instead we have opted to examine how their data reveal the power of community accountability to improve diversity. The authors’ data, in measures such as first authorship, middle authorship and editorial board composition, show that the percentage of women did not appear to change significantly between the first two time points, with a much larger increase between 2011 and 2021. What changed in the last decade? In this time, we saw increased public conversations around diversity,...

Source: Journal of Clinical Pathology - March 20, 2024 Category: Pathology Authors: Dry, S., Collins, L. C. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research