Sex Differences in Physician Salary in US Public Medical Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Limited evidence exists on salary differences between male and female academic physicians, largely owing to difficulty obtaining data on salary and factors influencing salary. Existing studies have been limited by reliance on survey-based approaches to measuring sex differences in earnings, lack of contemporary data, small sample sizes, or limited geographic representation.

Objective

To analyze sex differences in earnings among US academic physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

Freedom of Information laws mandate release of salary information of public university employees in several states. In 12 states with salary information published online, salary data were extracted on 10 241 academic physicians at 24 public medical schools. These data were lin

SUBMITTER: Jena AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5558151 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature