MEC Practice Academy 11.19
|Slideshows|April 7, 2020

Gender-based pay disparities and discrimination in medicine

Recent survey reveals that women still experience a great amount of gender bias in medicine. 

The healthcare recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins recently conducted a survey on discrimination issues to 43,000 women practitioners, of whom 429 responded. A summary of the results follows, with an emphasis on primary care. 


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