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. 2020 Feb;51(2):674-678.
doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.027016. Epub 2020 Jan 6.

Females Are Less Likely Invited Speakers to the International Stroke Conference: Time's Up to Address Sex Disparity

Lauren E Fournier  1 , Grant C Hopping  2 , Liang Zhu  3 , Miguel A Perez-Pinzon  4 , Bruce Ovbiagele  5 , Louise D McCullough  1 , Anjail Z Sharrief  1
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Females Are Less Likely Invited Speakers to the International Stroke Conference: Time's Up to Address Sex Disparity

Lauren E Fournier et al. Stroke. 2020 Feb.
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Keywords: epidemiology; faculty; medicine; stroke; women.

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Number of invited speakers to the ISC by sex and presentation category from 2014–2018. Males outnumber females in all categories except Nursing. Females represent the lowest proportion of speakers in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) and Other Neurocritical Management and Aneurysm categories. Presentation category information was missing for 531 presentations or 41%.
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