Introduction:

In scientific publications there is a gender bias demonstrated between women and men.

Objective:

To identify in three Anesthesiology and Resuscitation journals: Colombian, Mexican and Cuban, the differences between women and men as principal authors of scientific articles in the last five years.

Material y methods:

A descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study was conducted in three journals: The Mexican Magazine, the Colombian Magazine and the Cuban Journal of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, in the period between January 2013 to December 2018. To do this, requested the consent of the Director of the Magazine to review the gender of the main author and the type of publication made in the last five years.

Results:

A total of 779 articles from the three magazines mentioned above were analyzed. Of these, 293 were principal authors of articles and 488 were men. The man-woman ratio was 1.71 in the Mexican magazine, 1.84 in the Colombian magazine and 1.38 for the Cuban one. Most of the editorials were written in the Colombian and Mexican Magazines, by men while in the Cuban Magazine women predominated. So, also behaved the originals, review articles and clinical cases.

Conclusions:

Anesthesiologist women publish 2.6 times less articles than men, a fact that was confirmed in the three journals analyzed, so in the area, the gender gap is maintained in the scientific publications of the specialty.

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