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Call to action: gender equity in neonatology

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Fig. 1: Gender representation in various neonatology workforce domains.

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This work was supported by a Strategic Grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine. The American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine had no role in the design and conduct of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Kerri Z. Machut

  2. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Kerri Z. Machut

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Shazia Bhombal

  4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    Marilyn Escobedo

  5. Mission Children’s Hospital, Asheville, NC, USA

    Jasmeet Kataria-Hale

  6. Department of Pediatrics, Cooper Children’s Regional Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA

    Alla Kushnir

  7. Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Krithika Lingappan

  8. Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

    Christiana N. Oji-Mmuo

  9. Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Lisa Owens

  10. Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Renate Savich

  11. Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Anaheim, CA, USA

    Clara Song

  12. Pediatrix/Obstetrix of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

    Rachel Wright

  13. Department of Pediatrics, Tufts Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Christiane E. L. Dammann

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Data collection (KM, ME, AK, KL, RS, CS), first manuscript draft (KM), all authors revised the manuscript critically for substantive content, approved the final version, and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

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Machut, K.Z., Bhombal, S., Escobedo, M. et al. Call to action: gender equity in neonatology. J Perinatol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01390-w

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