Young Turks: Female Doctors Paid Less

[CherylK]

Run time: 03:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mek5M6KctY   Posted on YouTube: February 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 11309   Posted on DU: February 07, 2011 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 480

 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/uk-doctors-pay-gap-idUKLNE71304P20110204

[TheEuclideanOne]

1. They are not going to give the reasons why?

Seems like this study is rather incomplete. Couldn't they have delved more deeply into it to document the reasons why? Is there another study that actually answers these questions? I would think that they could compare male and female doctors, each working in the same discipline, maybe even in the same hospitals to get more accurate results. I can't imagine that if you had two doctors in the same hospital with the exact same duties that one doctor would make $17,000 per year more simply based on sex.

I am a computer programmer and you could take two groups of programmers and have each make a different amount, but it would be based on technologies used, experience levels, level of pay at companies, etc.