A paper published this year in JAMA Internal Medicine found that
male academic physicians get an average of 8 percent more than females, regardless of specialty, years of experience or productivity, which translates to an average salary bump of about $ 20,000, although the extent of the disparity varies widely.
Most of the respondents were white (85.5 percent),
male (62.8 percent) and
physicians (78.3 percent) practicing in an
academic medical setting (54 percent).