Just under a third of the roughly 460,000 female and 320,000 male patients included in the study were treated by female physicians, the researchers said, and there were no significant differences ...

Whatever the gender of their physician, though, female patients seem to respond better to medical care than male patients do. This is another divide in need of unpicking.

Over the course of a 40-year career, female doctors were paid $2 million less than their male counterparts, according to a study published in the medical journal Health Affairs in December 2021.