title: A matter of priorities? Exploring the persistent gender pay gap in hospital medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gender earnings disparities among physicians exist even after considering differences in specialty, part-time status, and practice type. Little is known about the role of job satisfaction priorities on earnings differences.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine gender differences in work characteristics and job satisfaction priorities, and their relationship with gender earnings disparities among hospitalists.
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational cross-sectional survey study.
  
  
  METHODS
  US hospitalists in 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  Self-reported income, work characteristics, and priorities among job satisfaction domains.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On average, women compared to men hospitalists were younger, less likely to be leaders, worked fewer full-time equivalents, worked more nights, reported fewer daily billable encounters, more were pediatricians, worked in university settings, worked in the Western United States, and were divorced. More hospitalists of both genders prioritized optimal workload among the satisfaction domains. However, substantial pay ranked second in prevalence by men and fourth by women. Women hospitalists earned $14,581 less than their male peers in an analysis adjusting for these differences.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The gender earnings gap persists among hospitalists. A portion of the disparity is explained by the fewer women hospitalists compared to men who prioritize pay.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: A Charlotta
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Tosha B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Wetterneck
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Chad T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.affiliation: Collaborative Research Unit, Cook County Health & Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Keiki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hinami
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D064416:Hospital Medicine / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000191:economics*; D063507:Sexism / Q000191:economics*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires