285.987 MSSNY Policy on Gender Equity in Medicine
MSSNY supports institutional, departmental and practice policies that promote transparency in defining the criteria for initial and subsequent physician compensation; and will advocate for pay structures based on objective, gender-neutral criteria. MSSNY will encourage a specified approach, sufficient to identify gender disparity, to oversight of compensation models, metrics, and actual total compensation for all employed physicians; promote training to identify and mitigate implicit bias in compensation determination; recommend elimination of the question of prior salary information from job applications for physician recruitment in academic and private practice.
MSSNY will create an awareness campaign to inform physicians about their rights under the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Equal Pay Act, which took effect in 2009, restoring protection against pay discrimination, establish educational programs to help empower all genders to negotiate equitable compensation. (HOD 2019-217)
