Women Earn $2 Million Less Than Men in Their Careers as Doctors
The New York Times
A survey of more than 80,000 physicians estimated that women make 25 percent less than men over a 40-year career.
Female doctors make less than their male counterparts starting from their very first days on the job, according to a large new study. Over the course of a 40-year-career, researchers estimated, this pay gap adds up to at least $2 million.
The survey of more than 80,000 physicians, published on Monday in the medical journal Health Affairs, is the largest analysis to date on physician salaries and the first to estimate the cumulative impact of pay gaps in medicine.
“We were able to see that essentially from Year 1 to Year 40 there is a pretty sizable gap,” said Christopher Whaley, the lead author on the study and a health economist at the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan think tank.
