Female doctors are good for your health, but they experience a gender pay gap, discrimination, burnout and depression
Our health-care system hasn’t changed along with the practice style of its female physician workforce. Image: Photo by Ani Kolleshi on Unsplash
Rebecca Renkas
Family physician and Global Journalism Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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