Gender and income in pharmacy

This is a case study of gender and earnings in pharmacy – a profession characterized by its rapid recruitment of female practitioners. We try to account for disparities in earnings between male and female pharmacists in Ontario with the aid of human capital theory and gender stratification theory. Data is drawn from a random sample of 463 Ontario pharmacists. We find a consistent sex gap in earnings regardless of occupational level of practitioners (i.e. owner, manager or employee) and net of such factors as hours worked, commitment to work, hours devoted to childcare, absences from the labour market, and years since graduation. Instead, the main reason why women in pharmacy earn less than males is because they remain employees throughout their careers. However, we are less successful at identifying the additional factors responsible for the depressed earnings of female practitioners. We discuss our findings in light of the claims of gender stratification and human capital theory

Biology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Family medicine · Human capital · Political science · Sociology · Stratification (seeds · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Medicine · Pharmacy · Psychology

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