Proportion of Female Physicians in a Specialty and Median Annual Payments in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is unclear why areas of medicine overrepresented by female physicians receive lower pay. One theory is devaluation-that work done by women is systematically devalued over time.

Objective

To assess whether an increase in the proportion of female physicians in a specialty is associated with a decrease in the median annual payments for that specialty.

Design, setting, and participants

In 2022, a population-based, repeated cross-sectional analysis was conducted using routinely collected data of all active physicians in Ontario, Canada, from 1992-1993 (1993) to 2019-2020 (2020). For each year, the percentage of female physicians and total annual median payments for each specialty were calculated.

Main outcome and measure

Random-effects linear regressio

SUBMITTER: Kiran T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12709378 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature