I appreciate Dr Sin’s call to action in her April editorial [BCMJ 2021;63:101 [10]]: “Ultimately, the question we should each be asking ourselves is not whether a gender pay gap exists in medicine, but what can I do to help close it?” And I urge our professional representative body (Doctors of BC) and our main payer (BC Ministry of Health) to (1) engage experts to do a review of processes and structures that are maintaining the gender pay gap, despite intentions to have it change, and (2) start to publicly report what this examination finds.
—Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP
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This letter was submitted in response to “The gender pay gap in medicine.” [10]
Links
[1] https://bcmj.org/cover/june-2021
[2] https://bcmj.org/author/rita-k-mccracken-md-phd-ccfp-coe-fcfp
[3] https://bcmj.org/node/8520
[4] https://bcmj.org/sites/default/files/BCMJ_Vol63_No5-letters_3.pdf
[5] https://bcmj.org/print/letters/re-gender-pay-gap-medicine-2
[6] https://bcmj.org/printmail/letters/re-gender-pay-gap-medicine-2
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[9] https://bcmj.org/javascript%3A%3B
[10] https://bcmj.org/editorials/gender-pay-gap-medicine
[11] https://bcmj.org/modal_forms/nojs/webform/176
[12] https://bcmj.org/%3Finline%3Dtrue%23citationpop