The health care sector, predominantly staffed by women, faces significant gender pay disparities. This inequity not only results in lower lifetime earnings for women but may also discourage them from pursuing advancement in health care careers. However, little is known about how the gender wage gap has changed in the health care workforce over the last decade, especially in relation to changes in the gender composition of the health care workforce.

This article examines the wage gap between men and women comprehensively across health care jobs over time, and how the gap may be related to the representation of women in the field.