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The authors created a study committee of surgeons from relevant specialties to match equivalent gynecological and urological procedures and compile a list of "paired procedures".

Billing codes for the paired procedures were then compared across most Canadian jurisdictions, finding that overall gynecological procedures were lower value than their urological equivalents 70% of the time.

This paper was among the research OMA Women presented to the OMA's Negotiations Task Force last week on the #GenderPayGap in Ontario physician remuneration.

It was one of the sources we used to make our own OHIP-specific list of paired procedures.

As I've written before: "lower pay for female physicians indicates widespread underfunding of women’s health...if we underpay the doctors who disproportionately care for women, that means we are underfunding–and therefore undervaluing–women’s health."
https://chatelaine.com/opinion/pay-gap-womens-healthcare/

In other words, studying the #GenderPayGap reveals a lot about health care as a whole and who it is institutionally built to serve. Understanding the biases built into our system is important not only for HCW pay equity but also for better distribution of resources.
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