Despite the often-quoted statistic that women in the U. Women of color, for example, have an even larger pay gap than white women. And women in certain fieldssuch as financial services, are further from pay parity than their peers in other professions. Medicine has traditionally been one of those imbalanced fields — and the latest physician compensation report from Medscape, a medical news site for healthcare professionals, finds that the situation is getting worse for many doctors. But increases have not been equal for male and female doctors. A racial pay gap also persists in medicine, the report finds. Women also tend to go into primary care or lower-paying specialties, while men often gravitate toward high-paying areas such as orthopedics, plastic surgery and cardiology. Those disparities explain some of the pay gap, the researchers write, but other factors are likely at play. Maryam Asgari, an associate professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, co-wrote a recent viewpoin...