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In recent decades, numerous initiatives have been dedicated to assessing gender balance in the workplace. Evidence demonstrates that gender diversity is associated with better organization of daily work, continuing employment of exceptional workers, and higher institutional financial income [1, 2]. Furthermore, specifically in the healthcare system, gender balance has been associated with better clinical outcomes [3, 4]. However, despite these facts, there is still a large gap between careers of men and women in the public and private sectors, both in healthcare and non-healthcare systems [5]. This appears to also be the case in the field of nuclear medicine. To facilitate the involvement of women professionals in nuclear medicine and to encourage their active participation in the initiatives of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the Women Empowerment Task Force (WE-TF) was founded [6]. The WE-TF has two main goals: first, to increase networking among women in the field of nuclear medicine worldwide, and second, to provide a space for women to share their experiences regarding scientific, educational, and career development. Activities aiming to achieve these goals will be coordinated by the WE-TF team, supported by the EANM office. The challenges encountered by the WE-TF were to first determine possible reasons for the underrepresentation of women in EANM activities, and second to understand the need to promote equal gender participation as perceived by the nuclear medicine community. In order to obtain the above-mentioned information, an electronic prospective online survey was conducted. It was This article is part of the Topical Collection on Editorial