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. 2020 Aug 31;192(35):E1011-E1017.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200375.

Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Michelle Cohen  1 , Tara Kiran  2
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Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Michelle Cohen et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) Scatterplot of the proportion of women in a specialty and the average gross payments per physician by specialty. (B) Scatterplot of the proportion of women in a specialty and the estimated average net income by specialty. Psychiatry includes geriatric psychiatry, child psychiatry and general psychiatry. Cardiac, cardiothoracic and thoracic surgery were combined into a single category. Pediatrics, internal medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology represent their general, but not subspecialty, categories.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Ratio of average gross fee-for-service payments to male versus female physicians in Ontario in 2016 by specialty. Only physicians billing more than $100 000 in payments are included in the analysis. A ratio of 1.0 denotes equality in gross fee-for-service payments between male and female physicians; a ratio greater than 1.0 denotes higher payments to males versus females. Data and analysis provided by Dr. Boris Kralj, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University, based on Ontario Health Insurance Plan fee-for-service payments in 2016.
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