But even now, nearly 200 years later, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) are still fighting an uphill battle against professional gender imbalance.
It has been proposed that professional gender inequalities will diminish with the growing proportion of females in the medical profession (cohort or generation effect) [ 24].
In addition, demographic information about the respondents will be collected, including healthcare setting (eg, community setting, private or state-funded healthcare system), number of years since registration as a healthcare professional, gender, age and average length of consultations with patients about medicines.
This dataset provides occupational safety and ergonomics professionals gender specific normative data on one-handed pull strength capacity in different age groups.
In this case study of a corpus of abstracts from an interdisciplinary, international conference, an analysis of text-matching and text-appropriation practices showed that region of employment, region of professional education, gender, and academic field or discipline were not consistent indicators of abstracts flagged for plagiarized material.
Structural network vulnerabilities include cliques, professional and gender homophily, and over-reliance on central agencies or individuals.
Responders and non-responders were comparable in terms of demographic and professional characteristics (gender, age, type of degree and professional activity; P >0.05).
Professional background, gender and employment status (seniority) had a significant impact on the choice of evidence used for decision-making in NHS Primary Care Trusts.
The professional and gender aspects might have an influence on the findings of this study, but to the best of our knowledge there are, to date, no studies conducted that compare these two aspects in the same study.
Overall, the findings in the literature (e.g. [ 11]) regarding professional grouping, gender, age, and experience with respect to acceptance of both PACSs and other health-related information technologies are mixed, and none of the characteristics appears to be a consistent indicator of users' acceptance.
As this was a study in a single institution, the transferability of the results may be limited, although we purposively sampled participants to represent different professional backgrounds, gender, and assessment experience, and all participants had assessment experience in two or more different medical programs.
