On average, male rheumatologists earn 16.2%—or $38,493—more than female rheumatologists. Although the data seem jarring, a closer look at it is needed to truly understand the pay gap…
Medical Schools Address Bias, Diversity, Inclusion in Variety of Ways
“What are you?” A faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine posed this question to a resident while attending rounds. Both were portraying a scene involving micro-aggression during Differences Matter, a three-day orientation for first-year medical students. On the program’s first day, students are introduced to unconscious bias and…
Studies Highlight Gender, Racial Inequalities in Medical Profession
(Reuters Health)—Women and minorities face more barriers to getting ahead in their medical careers, both early in training and later on, researchers say. In one study, Dr. Julie Boiko of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues found that women are underrepresented among speakers at grand rounds. This was true for all but two…
Race, Gender May Affect U.S. Doctor Paychecks
(Reuters Health)—When it comes to U.S. doctors’ paychecks, race and gender may be factors, according to a new study. “Black male physicians earn substantially less than white male physicians, while white and black females have comparable salaries,” says senior author Dr. Anupam Jena, of Harvard Medical School in Boston. “Black and white female physicians both…
2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: How Gender Differences Affect Pain
SAN FRANCISCO—Men and women have different mechanisms that are at work in producing pain in rheumatic diseases—a little-studied and little-appreciated fact that is crucial to developing and using the right kinds of treatments, an expert in rheumatic disease pain said in a talk at the 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. The lack of acknowledgment of this…
Gender Reversal in the Field of Rheumatology
Behind rheumatology’s ongoing transformation from a specialty whose members are overwhelmingly male, to one that is overwhelmingly female
Suggestions for Increasing Gender Diversity in Rheumatology
How to eliminate gender disparity in the rheumatology workforce
For Arthritis Patients, Good Support Can Be Hard to Find
Some patients receive more support from coworkers than from spouses
Rheum with a View
Panush’s perspectives on selections from the literature
Sex Differences & Rheumatoid Arthritis
The beliefs versus the data