Gender-based disparities in doctor pay can persist even within the same practice environment, a study of earnings for academic gastroenterologists suggests.

US researchers examined data from the 2018-19 Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Salary Report on 1644 gastroenterologists at public and private academic medical centres. 

Women were a minority of respondents (31%) overall, and they were also a minority of respondents with each academic title: instructors (37%), assistant professors (46%), associate professors (24%), and professors (24%).

While female instructors had higher median annual compensation than their male counterparts ($249,000 vs $231,000), women earned less than men at other levels of academic gastroenterology and the wage gap increased with rising academic rank, researchers report in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.