Women Get a Bad Shot: The Gender Wage Gap in the Medical Field Up to this point in time, our world has made extraordinary change. We’ve progressed from sticks and stones as tools to the fastest working technology humankind has ever faced. The world has advanced right before our eyes, yet many important matters go neglected by our very own eyes. The meaning of the word equality is tarnished; what many believe to be equality isn’t what equality truly is. We as the human population currently face an equality breach. This overstepping of boundaries encompasses the difficulties women are facing in the medical field: the gender wage gap. Several factors combined, such as, the current situation, psychological influences, women’s history, and the
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Many findings have suggested that women make less than men in the medical setting because they work less than them. However, even when women have the same professional standing and qualifications as their male counterparts, they continue to get paid less as exemplified by the Oaxaca method study analyzed in Kalist’s article in which, if a male and female both share the same qualities a male will still make $4,825 more than a female. (162) Women also have families to tend to and maternity leaves affect their check. However, what many fail to realize is that men are usually more supported by their employers anyway. As Kalist states “statistical discrimination could lead employers to provide more on-the- job training to male nurses if they believe females are likely to have shorter working careers.” (161) As discussed earlier, higher levels of education and training plays a part in the amount of money someone makes. So the fact that some women are being hindered of this only because they can become mothers and have families is incredibly unfair. A woman has as much ambition as a man, after all a woman’s job serves to maintain survival. Many attempt to neglect the fact that sexism plays a role in the gender wage gap. However, sexism very much plays a role in the inequalities that distinguish our society from utopia. As presented in the Annals of Internal Medicine, various women that are members of academic medicine, report that superiors told them that they do not need to worry about their compensations since they are a part of a “2-income family” and male colleagues are the ones who should be concerned since they are the “sole breadwinners for their families.” (Turner and Laine, 239) It may appear that sexism does not play a role, and oblivion is at fault. Daily, we are influenced by the media without consent and studies conducted by
Many findings have suggested that women make less than men in the medical setting because they work less than them. However, even when women have the same professional standing and qualifications as their male counterparts, they continue to get paid less as exemplified by the Oaxaca method study analyzed in Kalist’s article in which, if a male and female both share the same qualities a male will still make $4,825 more than a female. (162) Women also have families to tend to and maternity leaves affect their check. However, what many fail to realize is that men are usually more supported by their employers anyway. As Kalist states “statistical discrimination could lead employers to provide more on-the- job training to male nurses if they believe females are likely to have shorter working careers.” (161) As discussed earlier, higher levels of education and training plays a part in the amount of money someone makes. So the fact that some women are being hindered of this only because they can become mothers and have families is incredibly unfair. A woman has as much ambition as a man, after all a woman’s job serves to maintain survival. Many attempt to neglect the fact that sexism plays a role in the gender wage gap. However, sexism very much plays a role in the inequalities that distinguish our society from utopia. As presented in the Annals of Internal Medicine, various women that are members of academic medicine, report that superiors told them that they do not need to worry about their compensations since they are a part of a “2-income family” and male colleagues are the ones who should be concerned since they are the “sole breadwinners for their families.” (Turner and Laine, 239) It may appear that sexism does not play a role, and oblivion is at fault. Daily, we are influenced by the media without consent and studies conducted by