Equal Pay for Equal Work: Closing Ophthalmology’s Gender Gap in Compensation
In this episode of GT: The Podcast, Lama Al-Aswad, MD, MPH, reads her article, “Equal Pay for Equal Work: Closing Ophthalmology’s Gender Gap in Compensation,” written with Sunidhi Ramesh, BS, and Aakriti Garg Shukla, MD, for the March/April 2021 issue of Glaucoma Today. This article takes a deep dive into the gender gap that still exists in the field of ophthalmology, breaks down the wage statistics, and looks at the multifactorial ways that the disparities in pay can be mitigated.