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Persistent Imbalance: Women's Representation in North American Pediatric Cardiology Leadership Roles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite recent gender parity of physicians entering pediatric cardiology, representation of women leaders lags their male colleagues.

Objectives

We sought to better understand the variation in women in leadership roles in pediatric cardiology.

Methods

The gender of physicians in 16 prespecified leadership positions was collected by survey between July 2022 and January 2023 from pediatric cardiology programs with >5 cardiologists in North America. We analyzed the association of women leaders with center size (based on surgical volume), geographic region, presence of categorical fellowship program, and gender of division chief and department chair.