 The AMA has advocated to reduce gender bias and close the pay gap.The AMA said that “significant sex differences in salary exist even after accounting for age, experience, specialty, faculty rank, and measures of research productivity and clinical revenue.”
A 2015 study of gender pay disparities among hospitalists found that women were more likely to be working night shifts despite having lower salaries.In 2018, the AMA delegates advocated for transparency in defining the criteria for initial and subsequent physician compensation, that pay structures be based on objective, gender-neutral objective criteria, and that institutes take a specified approach using metrics for all employees to identify gender disparity..