title: Female authorship in emergency medicine parallels women practicing academic emergency medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Studies have shown that women in emergency medicine (EM) lag behind their male counterparts in academic productivity.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We compared the proportion of female attending physicians from EM academic programs to the proportion of female first or second authors of original scientific manuscripts and case reports from four major EM journals in a single year.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used a retrospective cross-sectional design. Original scientific manuscripts and case reports from four major EM journals published in 2005: Academic Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Journal of Emergency Medicine were reviewed to determine genders of first and second authors. The proportion of female first or second authorship was then compared to the proportion of female EM attending physicians from 134 academic EM programs in the United States. Data were analyzed using Pearson's chi-squared and Clopper-Pearson binomial confidence intervals as appropriate. A p-value of ≤ 0.05 was considered significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The percentage of female faculty; 940/3571 (26.32%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 24.9-27.8%) vs. the percentage of female first or second authorship 289/1123 (25.73%, 95% CI 23.3-28.4%) was not statistically significant (p = 0.562). There was no difference in the proportion of male and female authors with multiple manuscripts (p = 0.889).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As measured by first and second authorship, there was no discrepancy between the proportion of female EM faculty and the proportion of female authorship in EM literature from 2005.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware, USA.
authors.forename: Banu E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Tinjum
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Getto
authors.forename: Juliah
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tiedemann
authors.forename: Maaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marri
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brodowy
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bollinger
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Breyer
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States