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

Eliana E Kim¹, Lotta Velin², Adelina Mazhiqi³, Kathryn Wall⁴, Dominique Vervoort⁵, Emily Anderson⁶, Jacquelyn Corley⁷

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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.

PMID: 32504275
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-020-05623-x

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

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

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

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

Authors

Eliana E Kim¹, Lotta Velin², Adelina Mazhiqi³, Kathryn Wall⁴, Dominique Vervoort⁵, Emily Anderson⁶, Jacquelyn Corley⁷

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.

PMID: 32504275
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-020-05623-x

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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.

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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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