#MedToo… Harassment of Women in Medicine

by Mar 13, 2019Medical

#MedToo… Harassment of Women in Medicine

Written By: Gail Clifford | Published By: Life By Design| March 13, 2019

#MedToo… Harassment of Women in Medicine

When the #MeToo revolution began, it seemed more than overdue to me. Over the past year, I’ve come to realize the only way women have a chance at equity, and reasonable treatment is to continue to shine a light on this issue.

First, the salary inequity.

Can someone explain how anyone can accept receiving less pay for the same work? There was a Mary Tyler Moore rerun from the 1970s where she asked about salary disparity and was told, “It’s because he has a family to support.”

Some women in medicine make as little as 61% of their male counterparts. Old attitudes and research report this is due to decreased hours for child rearing, lack of productivity for spending more time per patient visit, and lack of initial salary negotiation. One example shown to me reflected that if a woman didn’t use her voice to negotiate that original salary up by just $10,000 a year, it reflected a loss of nearly a million dollars of earnings over her career.

So many women don’t negotiate their salary or ask for a raise because they don’t want to make a fuss. Read the book “Getting to Yes” and learn to negotiate, women!

Second, the harassment issue.

There is a significant, but profound, difference between being harassed because you’re a woman and being sexually harassed.

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