Differences in "productivity"

[differenceblog]

The Telegraph (UK 2008) reports on a study released ahead of print today on the website of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. "Gender and variation in activity rates of hospital consultants" found that female doctors in Britain's National Health Service saw about 20% fewer patients per year than male doctors. This finding led the

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[rdi]

This finding led the Telegraph to call women "less productive", a phrase not appearing in the article.

The Torygraph is not exactly a bastion of unbiased journalism; personally I'd more inclined to classify it as a reactionary right-wing hack rag. But then, I'm one of those latte-quaffing Guardian/Independent readers.

[differenceblog]

Bah. Doesn't look like the Guardian has covered the story yet. I'm was wondering if they'd used a different headline. I always wonder about the bias of media - I wonder if there's a centralized place to look that up.

At any rate, Google News teases me with a link to
all 39 news articles » which only shows three.

Male consultants treat more - study
Women doctors 'less productive than males'
Women consultants do less work than male peers

[ukelele]

Then again, people complain that they sit in the waiting room for an hour and get ten minutes of the doctor's time, and why don't doctors listen to them and spend time with them? (Personally, I would think that producing higher quality care per unit time would *also* reflect on productivity.)

So there you have it: doctors need the caring of a woman and the throughput of a man. Damned if you do, damend if you don't!