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A 6 page discussion of gender in the medical profession. This paper assesses the pay discrepancies that exist and speculates as to the cause. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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are particularly evident in the workplace where women have typically been delegated to subservient and lower paying positions than men. Even in our modern world this subservience continues.
Even when women move out of their traditional roles to take places beside men in the workplace they have almost always been kept in lesser paying positions. Even when
they managed to work their way into better positions, women were not reimbursed the same as men in similar positions. This is true not just in blue collar positions
but also in professional positions. The medical field is particularly illustrative of this fact. Interestingly, the number of women physicians in the
medical field has increased progressively over time. Salsberg and Forte (2002) report that the number of female allopathic physicians, for example, rose from 37,189 in 1980 to 148,768 in
2000. This was an over 300 percent increase as compared to only a forty-four percent increase for male allopathic physicians in that same time period (Salsberg and Forte, 2002).
The number of female physicians is expected to continue to rise. Indeed, in the 2000-2001 academic school year the number of females in allopathic medical school constituted forty-five
percent of the total number of students (Salsberg and Forte, 2002). By the year 2032 women should constitute half of all allopathic physicians (Salsberg and Forte, 2002). Kotulak
(2005) reports that women have already taken over pediatrics and: "they are swarming into internal
medicine, primary care, psychiatry, dermatology, and obstetrics and gynecology" While the growing number of female
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