TY - JOUR AU - Ilin, Julius AU - Langlois, Emilie AU - Jalal, Sabeena AU - Khosa, Faisal PY - 2019/10/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Gender disparity within academic Canadian urology JF - Canadian Urological Association Journal JA - CUAJ VL - 14 IS - 4 SE - Original Research DO - 10.5489/cuaj.6117 UR - https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/6117 SP - 106-10 AB - <p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Increasing female matriculation into medical school has shown an increase in women training in academic urology, but gender disparity still exists within this male-dominated field. This study aims to evaluate publication productivity and rank differences of Canadian female and male academic urologists.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> The Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) was used to compile a list of 12 Canadian accredited urology programs. Using each institution’s website, faculty members’ names, genders, academic positions, and leadership ranks were noted. SCOPUS© was consulted to tabulate the number of documents published, citations, and h-index of each faculty member. To account for temporal bias associated with the h-index, the m-quotient was also computed.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> There was a significantly higher number of men (164, 88.17%) among academic faculty than women (22, 11.83%). As academic rank increased, the proportion of female urologists decreased. Overall, male urologists had higher academic ranks, h-index values, number of publications, and citations (p=0.038, p=0.0038, p=0.0011, and p=0.014, respectively). There was an insignificant difference between men and women with respect to their m-quotient medians (p=0.25).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There is an increasing number of women completing residency in urology, although there are disproportionally fewer female urologists at senior academic positions. Significant differences were found in the h-index, publication count, and citation number between male and female urologists. When using the m-quotient to adjust for temporal bias, no significant differences were found between the gender in terms of academic output.</p> ER -