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Article History

Received: 13 September 2023

Accepted: 11 December 2023

First Online: 22 December 2023

Ethics approval

: The medical university’s Ethics Committee exempted the present study from full ethics review because under Austrian law the present study did not require formal approval by an ethics committee (“Federal Act on the Organization of Universities and their Studies (Universitätsgesetz 2002—UG),” 2002; “Hospitals and Health Resorts Act (Bundesgesetz über Krankenanstalten und Kuranstalten—KAKuG),” 2016).

: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, ) and the APA standards (APA, ). All participants were informed that the study was about advertisements or calls to affirmative action programs for women but were blind to the aims and hypotheses of the study. Before entering the questionnaire study participants agreed that their anonymous data was saved and used for research.

: The authors declare no competing interests.