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Allyship for women in urology

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The field of medicine has advanced towards gender equity in medical student matriculation over the past decade, but urology has lagged substantially behind other sub-specialties regarding the percentage of both women residents and women staff. This gender gap is further increased for under-represented individuals in medicine. One of the strategies to close these gaps is to create an inclusive work environment through allyship.

Women constitute 10% of the practising workforce in urology1. Over the past decade, an increasing number of women entered the urology residency match and contributed to ~30% of all residents. Currently, the female workforce within urology is younger than the male counterpart. With regard to practice patterns, women are 20% more likely than male colleagues to practise in academic or hospital settings in urban areas2. However, men are more likely than women to author publications and to be principal investigators, which potentially reflects more rapid academic advancement. Men were reported to have a three-times higher rate of academic promotion than women, whereas career advancement in urology takes 1.2 years longer for women than for men3,4.

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    Shree Agrawal-Patel, Smita De, Anna Zampini, Samuel C. Haywood & Eric A. Klein

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Agrawal-Patel, S., De, S., Zampini, A. et al. Allyship for women in urology. Nat Rev Urol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-023-00751-0

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