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Correspondence to ‘Gender gap in rheumatology: speaker representation at annual conferences’ by Monga and Liew—gender discrepancies at annual EULAR congresses: towards the gap narrowing

We read with interest the letter entitled ‘Gender gap in rheumatology: speaker representation at annual conferences’ by Kanika Monga and Jean Liew published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases .1

The authors highlight the issue of a gender gap among speakers and moderators at the academic conferences investigating female representation at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2017 and 2018. Overall, the proportion of female speakers and moderators was 42.8%–47% and the gap was higher in the clinician sessions presentations compared with basic science ones (45.8% vs 40.5%). The highest proportion of female representation was detected in Alliance for Human Research Protection sessions (65.3%), and the lowest in Meet the Professors and workshop sessions (34.4% and 28.7%). Indeed, the gender gap was narrower as compared with other conferences.2 Recently, European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) established a task force on gender equity …