Lower Wages for Women

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The paper looks at studies that reveal that regardless of primary care professions, women receive lower wages than men. The paper reveals further that there are less women in adminstrative positions and more women in under-funded public healthcare facilities. The paper notes the areas of the healthcare industry where this gap does not apply but shows how for the most part, women make less than men even if they are equally educated and with the same responsibilities. The paper concludes that as long as this continues, it will be difficult to attract more women into the healthcare profession.

From the Paper:

"While it may seem that the healthcare industry must be one of the country's industries where gender does not play a role in salaries and pay raises, that is not the case, as several studies indicate. In fact, just the opposite is true. Even though many medical professionals require the same higher education levels, they often do not pay the same when it comes to gender. This may be surprising, since it seems that the medical profession attracts its fair share of female professionals. These women are often educated just as highly as their male counterparts are, and have received good educations, but that still does not prepare them to make as much as men do, which is disheartening at best. Women professionals should expect to earn as much as their male counterparts and what is especially troubling is that even pediatricians, who are often professional women dealing with women and their children, are also paid less than their male counterparts are."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Blaska, Jill. "Healthcare Boom Not Just for Doctors and Nurses." Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) 9 May 2006: 8.
• Editors. "Health Care." Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2008. 8 July 2008.<http://stats.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm#earnings>
• Evans, Lois K., and Norma M. Lang, eds. Academic Nursing Practice. New York: Springer, 2004.
• Orient, Jane. "Fractured Healthcare: Americans Are Told That We Need "Universal Healthcare" The New American 8 Jan. 2007: 10+.
• Shorb, Gary S. "The Quality/cost Pressures on Healthcare Providers." Business Perspectives Fall 2006: 14+.

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