理解和解决神经学领域女性的性别平等问题首页

Consequences of salary gap on a woman academic physician's personal investment income Using a set of publicly available online financial modeling tools,^39,40 I examined the consequences of salary disparities on long-term income. I started with the assumption that a woman received an additional $30,482 in salary each year; that is, the dollar amount that would negate the salary gap Jena et al.⁶ identified for women in neurology. Using the 2018 marginal tax rate for a single or separately filing taxpayer with a $200,000 income (32.9%),³⁹ I calculated that this woman would have $20,453 of additional income available after taxes annually. After a 3% adjustment for inflation and in today's dollars, over 40 years she would have earned an additional $479,036 of income.⁴⁰ If she invested that gap-related additional income in a balanced mixed portfolio of 60% bonds and 40% stocks with a historical (1926–2017) average annual compounded investment return of 7.8%,⁴¹ after a 3% adjustment for inflation and in today's dollars, over 40 years she would have accumulated $1,395,060 of pre-tax investment income and booked a net return of $2,507,647.⁴⁰