Fortune breaks down the gender gap by healthcare profession.
Here are five insights:
1. The physician gender gap expands over a nearly $20,000 salary difference, with a 2016 Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital study finding female academic physicians made about $227, 783 compared to their male counterparts' $247,661.
2. Women in the health IT field don't fare much better than female physicians, with a pay gap of 78 percent in 2015, according to a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society analysis.
3. A mere 21 percent of executive and board members among Fortune 500 healthcare firms are women.
4. Although women account for three-quarters of healthcare jobs, only one-quarter of hospital CEOs are women, Fortune reports.
5. Biotech may be the future, though, with male and female chief executives making similar pay in private firms.