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More skilled jobs seem to have more disparity which is extremely surprising.
by 20kleagues 11y ago
More skilled jobs seem to have more disparity which is extremely surprising.
- RA_Fisher 11y agoI was really surprised by the gap for physicians and surgeons.
- Kalium 11y agoThat could easily reflect different specialties within medicine compensated differently. As I understand it, pediatrics is dominated by women and surgery by men, and they don't pay equally for a variety of reasons. So a chart like this strips away that sort of context and shows you a shocking number.
- ef4 11y agoThe gap in medicine is a microcosm of the wider gap: female physicians are disproportionately likely to end up in lower-paying specialties like pediatrics and family medicine.
- ivanca 11y agoMaybe they like those jobs more despite having lesser pay? Or do we always have to assume they are victims?
- lotharbot 11y agoI read an article a couple years back that pointed out a sudden increase in the gender pay gap among medical professionals -- specifically, fresh graduates from medical school, going in to the same specialties. Men and women had basically been at parity within each specialty in the early 2000s, and then over the course of the last decade or so, a massive gap appeared. I read a followup paper shortly after, where they had investigated the details and found that a significant percentage of recently-graduated women had asked for reduced hours and fewer overnight shifts in exchange for lower pay, while many men had volunteered for those sorts of conditions in exchange for higher pay. The gap had actually appeared in response to trends in the lifestyle decisions of employees, rather than discrimination on the part of employers.
- piker 11y agoPossibly a reflection of longer maternity leaves and work force re-entry?