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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, 2018 (HealthDay News) — An institutional gender equity initiative (GEI) can reduce gender-based salary gaps among medical school faculty, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in JAMA Network Open<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Avani D. Rao, M.D., from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues characterized gender disparities in salary and examined the outcomes associated with a GEI. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine annual salary and promotion data were retrospectively reviewed in a quality improvement study with simulations of salary and additional accumulated wealth (AAW). All academic faculty were included from 2005 and 2016 (1,481 and 1,885, respectively).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that a decade after GEI implementation, in 2016, the overall mean salary gap by gender decreased from \u22122.6 to \u22121.9 percent. Male faculty collected an average lifetime AAW of $501,416 more than equivalent women in the simulation of pre-GEI disparities; these disparities persisted past retirement. In the real-time GEI simulation, the AAW gap decreased to $210,829; the gap decreased to $66,104 using post-GEI conditions.<\/p>\n
“Importantly, our analyses display the positive impact of an institutional commitment to eliminating gender inequities,” the authors write. “These data highlight that outcomes of directed change are not seen immediately; therefore, institutions without GEI in place should implement similar efforts promptly to prevent further delays in progress toward gender equity.”<\/p>\n
Two authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical and technology industries.<\/p>\n