The gender composition of physician specialties varies dramatically with some becoming
increasingly female predominant while others remain overwhelmingly male. In their analysis …

Prior research has suggested that gender differences in physicians' salaries can be
accounted for by the tendency of women to enter primary care fields and work fewer hours …

Women comprise more than one third of the active physician workforce, an estimated 46% of
all physicians-in-training, and more than half of all medical students in the United States …

OVER THE PAST CENTURY, WOMEN HAVE MOVED from near exclusion from medical
schools to-ward forming the majority of new graduates in medicine, a trend referred to as …

In the United States, women physicians remain concentrated in a few specialties despite
their increased representation in the profession. Using data from the Association of …

Differences in income between male and female academic physicians are well known, but
differences for community physicians and career differences in income have not been …

The trend toward more female physicians has a number of implications, including:• a greater
decline in full-time equivalents of physician services than expected, especially in medical …

Background: Women constitute an increasing proportion of physicians in the United States.
Historically, inequities have existed between male and female physicians in professional …

Because of the large public investment in medical education, it is important to understand
why women physicians work significantly less than men physicians. National survey data on …

Context It is unclear whether male and female physician researchers who perform similar
work are currently paid equally. Objectives To determine whether salaries differ by gender in …