Women physicians still get paid a lot lower than their XY-chromosome counterparts a new report finds while a panel discussion tries to answer how to move the needle in gender and ethnic diversity in healthcare management roles.
I have seen how difficult it is for even very skilled, very qualified women to get placed on a board, and it has renewed my commitment to being an ally in this fight for gender diversity.
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A new survey from WebMD, Medscape and STAT dug deeper into the prevalence of patient bias. Among 822 physician respondents, 59 percent said they'd heard a derogatory remark about their personal characteristics from a patient within the past five years.
Patients who saw a female doctor were less likely to die within 30 days of leaving the hospital. They were also less likely to get readmitted within a one-month span of their initial discharge, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Last year, Rock Health took the first look at gender diversity on the stages of a dozen high-profile healthcare conferences. We knew from experience that women were largely confined to the attendee list at these events, and we were appalled when our research confirmed that only a quarter of speakers in 2013 were women. We […]