Female attendees were less likely than male attendees to ask questions during virtual ophthalmology grand rounds, according to a report published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
This occurred even though half of the attendees were women and nearly half of the speakers were women.
Grand rounds are academic meetings that include a presentation by an invited expert and are attended by physicians, researchers, other health care workers and students. During 31 virtual grand rounds sessions held between 2020 and 2021 in the department of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, a