A recent study found a gender pay gap in Canada’s reproductive health-care system.
Doctors in eight provinces who perform genitourinary (reproductive and urologic) procedures on female patients are paid 28 per cent less on an average than those who do similar surgeries on male patients.
Saskatchewan has the largest discrepancy of the eight provinces, at 67 per cent, followed by B.C. at 61 per cent and Yukon at 41 per cent.
Joanne Sivertson, the provincial department head for Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN) in Saskatchewan, said the numbers are disappointing, even though she is desensitized to gender disparities.
“It is demeaning, It is demeaning to women,” she
