Women in Orthopaedics: The Missing WOW Factor

摘要

Diversity in the workplace, with its proven benefits, has become a desirable asset for any successful enterprise and health-care systern is not an exception. Orthopedic surgery has always been associated with a glaring low representation from women in residency and faculty positions alike, making this discipline the least diverse of all surgical specialties. In fact, with only 14.9% of women residents, orthopedics is at the lowest of all specialty rankings the world over. The lower interest or participation is so abysmal that many outreach programs and scholarships have been instituted to attract attention and interest in many developed nations. These initiatives are conspicuous by their absence, so far, in developing countries with even more skewed ratios.