Confounders in determining female authorship in the emergency medicine literature

In the article “First and last authorship by gender in emergency medicine publications- a comparison of 2008 vs 2018,” the authors conclude that women represent 28% of the academic emergency workforce and are proportionately represented as first authors [1]. However, this both fails to capture key data and fur ther lacks context, leaving the reader to surmise that a disparity does not exist when this is certainly not the case.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research