Women in ophthalmic research see career inequalities

The integration of women authorship in ophthalmic research is comparable to that of other medical specialties, but overall women authors are underrepresented when compared with men, according to a study.
Philipp W. Kramer, MD, of the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine at Goethe-University in Germany, and colleagues sought to clarify sex equalities in ophthalmic research by evaluating the representation of female authorships.
The researchers performed a bibliometric analysis of English-language articles published in ophthalmologic journals found in the

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