Quick Hit: The under-representation of female cardiologists
A new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reports that women make up less than 20 percent of all cardiologists and that two-thirds of women continue to report discrimination.
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On the bright side, women are nearly 50% of medical students granted degrees [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/17census.html?_r=1&hp]. Maybe cardiologists will get a surge in a few years, too.
Women make up most trainees in many primary care fields these days and over the past generation the status of those fields has dropped and they are the lowest-paid areas of medicine. In my own field, internal medicine, the procedural subspecialities (mainly cardiology and GI) pay three to four times as much as general IM (primary care) and are mostly male. They also continue to have punishing, hazing fellowships that make having a family life nearly impossible, and the Powers that Be frown on such things as maternity leaves. Cards and GI fellowships are now 3 years on top of the three years in an IM residency, first.
Gosh, maybe the male/female ratios are a coincidence. Or, you know, not.