Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra
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Recently, there have been some conversations and some data about how the wage gap is shrinking. Now, the wage gap has gone up into the 80s, so 80% to the dollar. However, if you stratify wage gap, for lower earnings versus higher salaries. The wage gap for higher salaries is still pretty different, but there has been more pay equity for lower salaries, which I think is a silver lining. If anyone deserves to get to pay equity faster, it's women who are working at lower income jobs and working just as much as men do definitely deserve that increase in salary. But it looks like in professional situations where the range in salaries is a lot more subjective and industry driven, there are still significant gaps.
Welcome once again to Backtable Urology Podcast, your educational source for all things urology, and then some. Backtable Urology offers many informative and entertaining episodes, which you can find on iTunes, Spotify, and of course, backtable.com. I'm your host today, Dr. Suzette Sutherland, and I'm super excited to have Dr. Jair Santiago-Lastra with us today from the University of California, San Diego. She's here to discuss issues pertaining to the gender gap, the gender gap in medicine, and especially in surgery and urology. Why it exists, what are the common misconceptions or misconceptions myths concerning why there is a gender gap and what perpetuates it and what can be done, what needs to be done in order to even the playing field in both medicine and surgery for compensation, promotion, and other aspects as well. So thanks, Dr. Santiago-Lestra for being here with us today. Happy to be back, Suzette. Thank you for having me. So a little bit about her.
She is Latina from Puerto Rico. She's a first-generation physician, surgeon, and urologist. She's an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego. She has been designated a rising star in our national organization, the American Urology Association, because she's very involved in a number of task force and committees. most prominently the AUA DEI Task Force. She's also been involved in the DEI Task Force for our Society of Urodynamics and Female Pelvic Medicine. And she is the Society of Women and Urology Representative on Public Policy. So she's very involved in advocating for women and underrepresented minorities across the board in the area of urology. She's a member of Urology Unbound as well.
I forgot to mention that, which is also an organization that supports underrepresented minorities in urology. And of course, has a personal interest in health care equity for all patients. So this isn't just about the physicians and equity about the physicians and in the workforce, although that's a big issue, but also equity when it comes to patient care. So thank It's really wonderful work that she's been able to do in our national organizations, and we sure appreciate all of your efforts. So thank you, Dr. Santiago Lastra, once again. Thank you so much. That was very generous. So let's dive in. I've had the great fortune of hearing you speak on this topic, the gender gap, before. So that's what we're going to be talking about here today.
I was very impressed with all of the data. You certainly know your stuff, and you had a great presence to be able to convey the issues in a very concrete way. So that's what we want to do today. So first of all, though, when we talk about gender gap, most often people assume we're talking about issues in compensation between men and women, maybe promotion.
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