The one female doctor I know makes about $100,000. The three male doctors I know make between $300,00 and about $400,000. Two of the male doctors are in the same specialty as her. Why the difference? Because she will not take a job that requires hospital rotations or being on call. She will work from 8:00 to 5:00 and that’s it. She works for a “doc in a box” clinic.
This female doc worked part time when her kids were young. I now work full time plus to put them through college, am a chair of a department at my hospital and chief of my service. I have never left a mess or expected others to pick up the slack. When I worked part time I spent a great deal of uncompensated time working from home taking phone calls, etc. I did the same residency as the men, back when residency was 100 hours per week plus. I don’t know where folks get some of the garbage they spout on this thread, but I have not known female docs to be any less professional than their male colleagues. Whether working part time or full time. And by the way, part time in the medical field is often the equivalent of full time most other fields.