This article was originally published in Doximity Op-Med, a collection of healthcare opinion journals from Doximity members. 

The 2019 Doximity Physician Compensation Survey just landed and my head is swirling with thoughts. There are so many interesting trends to highlight: the gender pay gap; the pay gap between Primary Care and subspecialists; the huge gap between the proceduralists and the generalists; and the relatively low pay for all pediatric doctors. However, I’d like to focus on the narrowing pay gap for women in medicine, which for me, offered a glimmer of hope.

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Physician gender impacts many issues in the medical world – not least, the physician recruiting industry.

We've mentioned this before but it bears repeating: in 2017 more women than men enrolled in U.S. medical schools for the first time (per Medscape).  

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