Medical economics
Physician billing data reveal striking gender pay gap
An Ontario Medical Association (OMA) analysis has found a 15.6% unexplained pay gap between female and male physicians.
Aug 24, 2020
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News tagged with gender gap
Psychology & Psychiatry
Study suggests women plastic surgery residents rate their performance harsher than men rate their own
Recent news headlines, such as "Gender gap in self-promotion penalizes women," "Women less inclined to self-promote than men," and "Men exaggerate their importance at work while women do the exact opposite," vividly portray ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Medical economics
Gender gap persists in starting salary for physicians
The gender gap in starting salary for physicians persists, although it is unclear which factors account for this gap, according to a report published online Jan. 22 in Health Affairs.
Jan 29, 2020
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Health
Meaningful change in culture urged to save neurology, reduce gender gap
Allison Brashear, Dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, is working to save the future workforce of neurology and to reduce the gender gap in the medical specialty.
Dec 13, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis finds
It is well-established that, on average, men outperform women on a spatial reasoning task known as mental rotation—imagining multi-dimensional objects from different points of view. Men are not, however, born with this ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Women dominate ob/gyn field but make less money than male counterparts
While women outnumber men as Ob/Gyn practitioners, they still make significantly less money and the pay gap extends to subspecialties like reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI), according to researchers at the ...
Apr 1, 2019
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Health
Study explores sexuality and gender gaps in political perspectives among college students
A University of Oklahoma sociologist, Meredith Worthen, has published a new study in the journal, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, on sexuality and gender gaps in political perspectives among lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...
Dec 6, 2018
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Cardiology
Fewer than 5 in 100 Australian and NZ interventional cardiologists are women
A new study has highlighted a critical gender gap in interventional cardiology, the medical field specialising in treating blocked arteries in heart disease.
Nov 30, 2018
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Other
Female internists consistently earn less than men
(HealthDay)—Female internists earn less than men, across many demographic and employment indicators, according to a research letter published online Aug. 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Aug 7, 2018
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Other
Why men say they've had more lifetime sexual partners than women
The disparity between the number of sexual partners reported by men and women can largely be explained by a tendency among men to report extreme numbers of partners, and to estimate rather than count their lifetime total, ...
Jul 25, 2018
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