PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sanders, Kaplan AU - Jabbarpour, Yalda AU - Bazemore, Andrew TI - Lifetime Impact of the Gender Wage Gap in Family Medicine AID - 10.3122/jabfm.2024.240240R1 DP - 2025 Mar 01 TA - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine PG - 373--374 VI - 38 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/38/2/373.short 4100 - http://www.jabfm.org/content/38/2/373.full SO - J Am Board Fam Med2025 Mar 01; 38 AB - The gender wage gap in early-career family medicine results in female physicians earning nearly $32,000 less annually than their male counterparts, with significant lifetime financial impacts. Modeling this disparity over a 25-, 30-, and 35-year career reveals that, without interventions, female physicians could accumulate $2.0 to $4.4 million less than male physicians, underscoring the need for systemic changes to address gender-based pay inequities in the medical profession.