PIXABAY, MARIONBRUNAt medical schools in the United States, female doctors on average earn roughly $51,000 less than their male colleagues, according to a study published yesterday (July 11) in JAMA Internal Medicine. When the researchers took into account faculty rank, age, number of publications, and other factors, the gap still persisted, to the tune of nearly $20,000.
“It’s 2016, and yet in a very methodically strong, large study that covers a broad swath of the country, you’re still seeing at the very least a 10 percent difference in what men and women take home,” Molly Cooke, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not part of the study, told The New York Times.
A team led by researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed salary data from 24 medical schools in 12 states. Women, who represented roughly one-third of the sample, were each paid around $207,000 on average, compared to men who made roughly $258,000.
The biggest pay gaps existed among certain surgical specialties and full professors. Male and female radiologists, family medicine doctors, and emergency physicians ...
