That pesky gender pay gap exists for doctors too

It's been well-documented that one factor that explains the "gender-pay gap" is the existence of a "gender-hours gap."  According to the BLS, men worked on average about five more hours per week in 2009 (40.2 hours) than women on average (35.3 hours), and that "gender-hours gap" has persisted over time.

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Politico.com reported this week that "The Obama administration recently launched a software development competition designed to help

Here's the abstract of the paper "The $16,819 Pay Gap For Newly Trained Physicians: The Unexplained Trend Of Men Earning More Than Women" in Health Affairs (Feb. 14, 2011): 

"Because women prefer the mommy track."  From Kay Hymowitz writing in City-Journal (emphasis added):

Catherine Rampbell writes up a new GAO report on gender gaps in the workforce. The pay gap continues to slowly narrow: