Letter to the Editor: Cultural Barriers for Women in Surgery: How Thick is the Glass Ceiling? An Analysis from a Low-/Middle-Income Country

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. eliana.kim@ucsf.edu.
² Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³ Ängelholm Hospital, Ängelholm, Sweden.
⁴ Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Neurological Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

Comment

Eliana E Kim et al. World J Surg. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;44(9):3186-3187.

doi: 10.1007/s00268-020-05623-x.

¹ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. eliana.kim@ucsf.edu.
² Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³ Ängelholm Hospital, Ängelholm, Sweden.
⁴ Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Neurological Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

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Authors' Reply: Cultural Barriers for Women in Surgery: How Thick is the Glass Ceiling? An Analysis from a Low Middle-Income Country.
Inam H, Janjua MB, Malik M. Inam H, et al. World J Surg. 2020 Sep;44(9):3190-3191. doi: 10.1007/s00268-020-05640-w. World J Surg. 2020. PMID: 32535644 No abstract available.

Cultural Barriers for Women in Surgery: How Thick is the Glass Ceiling? An Analysis from a Low Middle-Income Country.
Inam H, Janjua M, Martins RS, Zahid N, Khan S, Sattar AK, Darbar A, Akram S, Faruqui N, Khan SM, Lakhani G, Gillani M, Hashmi SA, Enam A, Haider AH, Malik MA. Inam H, et al. World J Surg. 2020 Sep;44(9):2870-2878. doi: 10.1007/s00268-020-05544-9. World J Surg. 2020. PMID: 32372142

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