White Male Doctors Earn More Than Women and Black Peers, Study Finds

 

By Maggie Fox

It's pretty well established that white men earn more than women, and that white people earn more than black people in the U.S. But that disparity should disappear for a highly trained and specialized field like medicine, right?

Evidently not, according to a new study.

Even when they go through all the years of medical school, the agony of residency and specialty training — even when they are equally qualified — women and African-American physicians earn significantly less than their white male colleagues, the study found. 

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Source: NBC News