Female Medical School Doctors Earn Less than Male Counterparts: Study

Women doctors working at public medical schools in the United States earn almost $20,000 less per year than their male counterparts, a study suggests. The findings were published Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and were compiled using data from more than 10,000 physicians, a third of whom were women, at 24 public medical schools in 12 states. "Our use of publicly available state employee salary data highlights the importance of physician salary...

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