Andrea C Tricco, Vera Nincic, Nazia Darvesh, Patricia Rios, Paul A Khan, Marco M Ghassemi, Heather MacDonald, Fatemeh Yazdi, Yonda Lai, Rachel Warren, Alyssa Austin, Olga Cleary, Nancy N Baxter, Karen E A Burns, Douglas Coyle, Janet A Curran, Ian D Graham, Gillian Hawker, France Légaré, Jennifer Watt, Holly O Witteman, Jocalyn P Clark, Ivy L Bourgeault, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Sofia B Ahmed, Karen Lawford, Alice B Aiken, Etienne V Langlois, Christopher McCabe, Sasha Shepperd, Becky Skidmore, Reena Pattani, Natalie Leon, Jamie Lundine, Évèhouénou Lionel Adisso, Wafa El-Adhami, Sharon E Straus
OBJECTIVES: To chart the global literature on gender equity in academic health research. DESIGN: Scoping review. PARTICIPANTS: Quantitative studies were eligible if they examined gender equity within academic institutions including health researchers. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Outcomes related to equity across gender and other social identities in academia: (1) faculty workforce: representation of all genders in university/faculty departments, academic rank or position and salary; (2) service: teaching obligations and administrative/non-teaching activities; (3) recruitment and hiring data: number of applicants by gender, interviews and new hires for various rank; (4) promotion: opportunities for promotion and time to progress through academic ranks; (5) academic leadership: type of leadership positions, opportunities for leadership promotion or training, opportunities to supervise/mentor and support for leadership bids; (6) scholarly output or productivity: number/type of publications and presentations, position of authorship, number/value of grants or awards and intellectual property ownership; (7) contextual factors of universities; (8) infrastructure; (9) knowledge and technology translation activities; (10) availability of maternity/paternity/parental/family leave; (11) collaboration activities/opportunities for collaboration; (12) qualitative considerations: perceptions around promotion, finances and support...
February 15, 2023: BMJ Open