Representation of Women in Authorship and Dissemination of Analyses of Physician Compensation

Allison R Larson,Kelly A Cawcutt,Susan C Pitt,Julie K Silver,Howard Y Liu,Eman Ansari,Meridith J Englander

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.1330

Abstract

Representation of Women in Authorship and Dissemination of Analyses of Physician Compensation

Highlights

Physician gender pay gaps persist in the US despite an impressive body of research spanning more than 25 years and adjusting for potentially confounding factors, including rank, years in practice, practice type, specialty, parental status, and hours worked.[1,2,3,4,5] We hypothesized that women physicians were disproportionately represented as producers and disseminators of pay equity research and were largely unfunded for this work
We identified 39 physician compensation studies (Table 1)
There were 2 instances (8.7%) of medical society support, 4 instances (17.4%) of institutional, and 1 instance (4.3%) each of regional, foundational, and organizational support; 1 instance (4.3%) was uncategorized, and 10 reports (43.5%) cited national grants, it was not clear for some of these whether the grants supported this work or other work performed by the authors. These findings suggest that women are significantly overrepresented as producers and disseminators of compensation studies that include gender data

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Introduction

Physician gender pay gaps persist in the US despite an impressive body of research spanning more than 25 years and adjusting for potentially confounding factors, including rank, years in practice, practice type, specialty, parental status, and hours worked.[1,2,3,4,5] We hypothesized that women physicians were disproportionately represented as producers and disseminators of pay equity research and were largely unfunded for this work. Men have great power to drive change, given their larger representation within academic medical leadership. If compensation studies are unfunded and if women are more engaged than men in the pay equity issue, these factors may contribute to slow progress in addressing compensation disparities

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