O54: GENDER REPRESENTATION IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF INTERNATIONAL GENERAL SURGERY JOURNALS

Abstract Introduction Despite women constituting over half of new UK doctors, and a similar proportion worldwide, gender disparity remains an issue throughout academic medicine. Surgery has shown particularly slow progress towards parity. This study aims to quantify representation within editorial boards the top 25 general surgical journals. Method All journals were collated using SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Impact Factor (JIF). Non surgery excluded. Journals contacted requesting team demographics. Editorial board data was collected via journal websites on 20th November 2019. Result The determined through SJR JIF ranking methods. publicly available for 31 these 32 different then examined. Women accounted 18.4% (576/3135) total positions. constituted 12.5% (5/40) Editors-in-Chief positions, 31.6% (31/98) Deputy Editors 17.2% (416/2415) Conclusion For first time, been demonstrated most prominent implications such significant are wide reaching. Action should be taken champion fair female representation, eliminate risk bias provide more visible role models in surgery. Take-home message this demonstrates major