title: The feminization of the Canadian pharmacy workforce: A gender analysis of graduates from a Canadian school of pharmacy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is limited information available regarding the impact of the feminization of the pharmacy workforce in Canada.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using data from a cross-sectional mailed survey, we examined gender differences among 289 pharmacists who graduated between 1990 and 2007 from pharmacy school in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 114 male and 175 female respondents, a larger proportion of females than males graduated after 2000 (21.1% vs 13.3%), worked part-time (8.6% vs 1.8%), were staff pharmacists (66.3% vs 47.4%), earned $70,000 or less per year (28.0% vs 17.7%) and rated opportunities for job advancement as not important in choosing their current job (22.5% vs 12.3%). Female pharmacists also worked fewer hours than their male counterparts (mean 37.6 vs 41.3 hours). These differences were more pronounced among older female pharmacists (graduated in the 1990s).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gender and age should be considered when predicting an effective supply of pharmacists to meet current and future workforce demands.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lemessurier
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mathews