Gender differences in compensation in academic medicine: the results from four neurological specialties within the University of California Healthcare System

Michael T. Henderson, Natalia Fijalkowski, Sean K. Wang (), Mitch Maltenfort, Luo Luo Zheng, John Ratliff, Andrew A. Moshfeghi and Darius M. Moshfeghi ()
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Michael T. Henderson: Stanford University School of Medicine
Natalia Fijalkowski: Stanford University School of Medicine
Sean K. Wang: Stanford University School of Medicine
Mitch Maltenfort: Thomas Jefferson University
Luo Luo Zheng: Stanford University School of Medicine
John Ratliff: Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrew A. Moshfeghi: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Darius M. Moshfeghi: Stanford University School of Medicine

Scientometrics, 2014, vol. 100, issue 1, No 17, 297-306

Abstract: Abstract This study demonstrates the continued existence of gender disparity with respect to salary in four neurologic specialties in the largest public healthcare system of the Western United States without the bias of self-report. We extracted physician salary information from the publicly available UC pay system database and obtained Scopus ( http://www.scopus.com/home.url ) and Web of Science publication counts and h-indices via searching individual faculty by name and specialty. Faculty gender, institution, specialty, ranking, chairmanship, degrees, and salary data were collected through review of departmental websites and individual faculty profiles. All faculty members (n = 433) from the departments of ophthalmology, otolaryngology, neurosurgery and neurology in the UC pay system database in 2008 were selected for analysis. We found that female faculty members in the 2008 UC healthcare system were significantly underrepresented from the highest salary brackets, representing only 12.5 and 2.6 % of those earning $300,001–$400,000 and over $400,000, respectively (p

Keywords: Academic; Medicine; Physician; Salary; Database; Gender; Specialty; Female; Rank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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