Leaky pipeline gender bias self-selection or all three? A quantitative analysis of gender balance at an international palliative care research conference

摘要

ObjectivesThe ‘leaky pipeline’ in academia is a clearly described phenomenon, but has not been examined in palliative care. We analysed the gender balance of speakers at the 9th World Research Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) to test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the proportion of women and men with senior academic visibility in palliative care conference programmes.