This piece by Dr. Starr Knight on discrepancies in pay for women and black emergency physicians is important but disturbing. The problem has been long-standing and continues, according to recent studies cited in the piece. One 2023 survey found that the average annual income of women emergency physicians was more than $43,000 less than that of their male counterparts.
Of note, some have argued that differences in hours and part-time versus full-time status account for the pay discrepancies, but a 2017 paper using multivariate linear regression models demonstrated that those reasons are not a valid explanation for the discrepancies.
See more sobering data in Dr. Knight’s article.
