Yet, male nurses still make more money than their female counterparts. According to a UC San Francisco-led study, male registered nurses (RNs) make about $5,000 per year more than their female colleagues across most settings, specialty areas, and positions, and this earnings gap has not improved over the last three decades. “The roles of RNs are expanding with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and emphasis on team-based care delivery,” said lead author Ulrike Muench, Ph.D., assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences in the UCSF School of Nursing. “These results may motivate nurse employers, including physicians, to examine their pay structures and act to eliminate inequities.”
Exactly this.