Female Family Physicians Are More Racially Diverse Than Their Male Counterparts in Federal Sites

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Table 1.

Racial Composition of Federal Family Physicians in Comparison to the Overall Sample of Family Physicians by Gender

Race/ethnicity	All family physicians				Female family physicians				Male family physicians
	Federal		All		Federal		All		Federal		All
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Non-Hispanic, White	1504	65.8	47,705	67.5	510	54.9**	19,808	60.7	994	73.4	29,401	72.9
Non-Hispanic, Black	159	7.0	4048	5.7	98	10.5**	2675	8.2	61	4.5	1532	3.8
Non-Hispanic, Asian	379	16.6	11,494	16.3	219	23.6**	6549	20.1	160	11.8	5324	13.2
Non-Hispanic, American Indian, or Alaskan Native	17	0.7	510	0.7	9	1.0	253	0.8	8	0.6	274	0.7
Non-Hispanic, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	13	0.6	345	0.5	10	1.1**	189	0.6	3	0.2	169	0.4
Non-Hispanic, Other	44	1.9	1690	2.4	25	2.7	869	2.7	19	1.4	865	2.1
Hispanic/Latinx	168	7.4	4873	6.9	58	6.2	2296	7.0	110	8.1	2745	6.8

Note: “Federal” includes military, Veterans Administration/Department of Defense. Source: Analyses of American Board of Family Medicine Certification Application Survey Data (2014–2019)
**P < 0.01.