Here are four takeaways:
1. This regulation may affect the healthcare industry as 76 percent of hospital employees and 79 percent of healthcare and social assistance workers are women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
2. Female physicians made an average of $50,000 less than their male counterparts, according to a 2013 JAMA Internal Medicine study.
3. The physician gender wage gap rose to 30 percent by 2010.
4. Female registered nurses made an average of $5,100 less annually than their male counterparts, based on a 2014 JAMA study.
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