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Medicine has well-documented, persistent gender inequities despite the growing proportion of women in the workforce [1]. Neonatology is not immune from professional inequities [2], even though the majority of neonatologists are women (71% of neonatologists board-certified in 2020, 56% overall,> 70% of incoming fellows for last ten years [3]). Though progress has been made, women in neonatology remain underrepresented in leadership positions, awards, lectureships, conference speakers, federal grant recipients, and journal authors (Fig. 1). Women neonatologists are paid $35,000 less total compensation annually (compounded to $3,500,000 lifetime) than men, adjusted, with gender as one of the largest independent predictors [2]. Women are more likely than men to have younger children, be single, and not have a partner who supports the home full-time [2]. Thus, inadequacies in family leave, lactation …