"Female doctors earn $50,000 less than male doctors" or so you thought. (4th paragraph if you will)

newSuperHuman · 2013-09-03T19:36:17+00:00

The study adjusted for hours to avoid overstating gender differences, such as if female doctors worked fewer hours, and also accounted for years of experience

Oh, [some people who worked less] made less money than [some people who worked more]. Sounds about right to me. Why are we bringing gender into this?

TracyMorganFreeman · 2013-09-03T20:24:43+00:00

One factor researchers were not able to adjust for though was specialty, which is important: Specialists, such as surgeons or radiologists, tend to earn significantly more than primary care providers. Women account for more than half of the country’s pediatricians but fewer than 10 percent of orthopedic surgeons, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

So women chose to be primary care, and not the higher wage earning parts of the field. How the hell is this a women/men issue? This is a "women don't enter the same fields". You can't just take a whole area of employment and assume all of its sub-disciplines are the same.

needoptionsnow · 2013-09-04T03:39:55+00:00

Less males graduating into doctors = less lower income male doctors. More females graduating into doctors = more lower income female doctors.

giegerwasright · 2013-09-03T18:51:41+00:00

Seems to make the case for the opposite.

actanonverba8 · 2013-09-04T03:26:49+00:00

Comment I left:

Another bogus wage gap myth being propagated, par for the course in the present time. When this gets debunked by the usual suspects (hours worked, specialty, willingness to make long commutes, refusal to accept inflexible working hours, etc..) I´m sure Ms. Kliff will make sure to write up a nice article publicizing the debunking. Won´t you Ms. Kliff?

2013-09-04T05:08:41+00:00

Also, if you are familiar with medical world, specialty drs and surgeon make the real money, and are mostly men. Women choose pediatrician and general practice which makes much less. But I guess it's the men's fault as well that they pursue higher levels of specialty I guess.

Thisismynetlife · 2013-09-04T02:36:17+00:00

Argh! Damn womyn's personal choices! Everyone else should be responsible for their outcomes!

Title	"Female doctors earn $50,000 less than male doctors" or so you thought. (4th paragraph if you will)
Author	pakiswag
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Date	September 3, 2013 6:42 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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