Frustrated that you can’t find a female urologist, surgeon or other physician? If teaching hospitals reduced the weekly workload of residents, research suggests many more women would enter what have traditionally been time-intensive, highly paid medical specialties.
In a study of early stage career choices by female physicians, UCLA Anderson’s Melanie Wasserman found evidence that a policy which reduces a medical specialty’s workweek increases the share of women entering the specialty. The entry of men barely changed. Wasserman looked at 20 broad specialties, from more traditionally female-friendly professions like obstetrics and family medicine to male-dominated specialties like orthopedic surgery and otolaryngology.
Wasserman’s findings could have significant implications for closing the wage gender gap in health care, since the cap on hours had the biggest impact on the highest-paid careers such as general surgery and surgical subspecialties.
Could Workweek Change Gender Pay Gap?
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