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So what are current weekly work hours for male vs female physicians?

I don't know because I'm not from america, but when I worked in hospital here, over a 5 week period, we were expected to have 3 of the weeks would be 60 hours long, and the other 2 would be 80 hours long. Luckily I'm out of that situation, now.

I've had friends who were expected to work 120 hour weeks for a period of 3 months, but that was in a different specialty.

So I did a bit of digging so the average in america is about 50 hours per week. About a quarter of which work 60-80 hours per week.

Avg? tl;dr It was driven by the pandemic shut-down.

Highly depends on specialty.

It varies from 40 to about 80 a week.

Many women typically worked part time in the past. Outpatient care from like 9 to 3 pm. To be able to drop off and pick up the kids for example.

Some women in surgical specialties work 80 hour weeks and have their husband take care of the kids. It really varies greatly on an individual basis.

Seems like this may be driven by the expansion of paternity leave.

Paternity leave would explain why the people working less are disproportionately fathers.

It would also explain why mothers are working more. If they have a husband who can take paternity leave it may not be as necessary to take the full amount of maternity leave.

~53 down to ~49 from the article

Yes, but what are the weekly hours worked for males and what are the weekly hours worked for females. These percentage decline/rises mean nothing without reference points.

I don't have access to the full article unfortunately.

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Do you get overtime for those hours more than 40 hours a week?

Yes. Converting to dollars: $13 per hour for the first 40 hours then overtime kicks in.

13 dollars an hour as a physician? Omg…

This was the case for many years, though the exact pay varies in accordance to your rank.

About 10-15 years ago the union managed to get specialists a considerably higher wage. It still is the pay for people who haven't fully specialized.

But is it more than say your average office worker? It’s all relative to everything else

A teacher (and doctors) starts at about $12.5/hr I'm not sure about other jobs.

Average wage is about $9, minimum wage is about $4.5

But there is a lot of undeclared/untaxed work here so these figures are probably artificially low (as in there are many people on unemployment benefits that are making quite a lot of money in undeclared work.

If you don’t mind me asking. What country is this? Very curious since here in the usa. It’s completely different

It's in the EU, lets say that

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As someone who just moved to Italy, smells Italy!

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Garbage! How many men vs woman? Woman dominate the RN and LPN fiels, so let's look at that too.

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