I'm Danielle Aitan, an associate professor of facial plastic surgery at NYU Langone Health.

And I'm Manny Vasaneytar, and I am a chief resident at NYU.

We know that authorship is a key metric in career progression, so we wanted to use this as an assay to demonstrate or study the progression of women along the career path in facial plastic surgery.

So in order to do this, we looked at three prominent facial plastic surgery journals.

Those were FP SAM, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Archives of Plastic Surgery.

We looked at every single study that was published between the years of two thousand and seven to twenty twenty-two.

We did this in three-year increments.

And then we basically categorized these publications based on the gender of the first authors, the gender of the last authors, and then combined these into overall statistics.