Becker's Hospital Review

27 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP done that differently," or, "I could have done that better," great — you reflected on it and learned something. at is an amazing jour- ney in your life that will open up so many doors that you never imagined. I never imagined that I would be a CEO of an amazing health system in the state of Hawaii. at wasn't what I imagined when I started my career. But every day I grew. I continuously learned, and the path kept un- folding in front of me. So seek your path. Seek what is going to be. ... It's not the role. It's not saying, "I want to be the CEO. I want to be X or Y or Z." You want to lead. You want to develop. You want to see something better and more, creating help with the peo- ple that you love, your community, the peo- ple that you serve. When you do that, it's an endless opportunity to do good things and make a difference. Q: In your view, what separates a "good" leader from a "great" leader? JHG: ere are leaders that are clinicians at the front lines, there are leaders that are man- agers and directors, and there are executive leaders. In all cases, a leader needs to have a vision, a picture of where we can be that is greater than where we are today. Vision is important, but that is only a piece of what great leadership is. For me, it is essential that leaders partner with the people they serve. For example, as CEO of a health system, I need to be able to partner with the patients we are serving and the broader community, in addition to working with individuals in government. Additionally, I need to partner with other leaders and the front-line teams that are your privilege to serve and support. We are here, in leadership, to serve and cre- ate an environment to allow our teams to be the most effective at achieving our mission. Overall, the thing that separates the good leaders from great is not just having a vision and being able to direct. It is truly being able to serve, partner with and support the pa- tients you serve, the community you serve and clinicians you serve. I'd also add that a great leader knows how to build the team that directly works with them as well as creates teams throughout their organization. Nothing is done without teams, and we must work together to sup- port each other and take on new challenges every day. When I hire leaders, I expect that they have the humility of continuous learning and a spirit of generosity to educate and support in whatever way the people they are working with need. To me that is great leadership. n Male physicians see up to 31% larger paychecks than their female colleagues By Kelly Gooch P ay gaps between male and female physicians persisted across every specialty in Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2022." In the report, male physicians in primary care earned $285,000, 25 percent more than their female counterparts, and male specialists earned $402,000, 31 percent more than female specialists. Among specialists, the gender pay gap narrowed from 36 percent in 2018 and 33 percent in 2019, which Medscape said may reflect efforts by profession- al specialty organizations to address pay inequities. "A great many of the specialty organi- zations have efforts underway not just to increase the number of women in specialties but also to address gender pay gaps and bias in evaluations during residency and fellowship," Ron Holder, COO of the Medical Group Manage- ment Association, said in Medscape's 2022 report. "Also, as more women have been able to break down barri- ers into specialties where they have not been as present before, aspiring female medical students, residents and fel- lows now have opportunities for more female mentors in the field of interest. The benefit of that in recruiting women to the specialty can't be overstated." For its latest report, Medscape collect- ed responses from 13,000 physicians across 29 specialties from Oct. 5, 2021, through Jan. 19, 2022. The report also has the percentage of female physicians in specific specialties. The four specialties with the most female physicians are: • Pediatrics: 58 percent • OB-GYN: 57 percent • Diabetes and endocrinology: 52 percent • Dermatology: 48 percent The four specialties with the fewest female physicians are: • Urology: 8 percent • Orthopedics: 11 percent • Plastic surgery: 16 percent • Cardiology: 16 percent n Female breadwinners take on more housework, study shows By Alia Paavola M others who earn more than their spouses frequently take on an even greater share of housework, a study published March 31 found. Typically, the housework gap wid- ens when a couple has children. Al- though economic theory suggests that women working more hours or earning more income than their spouses would lead to a more even split of chores, this was not the case in a study of 6,000 heterosexual North American households, The study was from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. For the study, housework was defined as time spent cooking, cleaning and doing other chores around the house. "I found that the gender housework gap actually gets bigger for mothers who earned more than their spouses — the more they earned over their part- ner, the more housework they did," Dr. Joanna Syrda of the University of Bath School of Management told Science Daily. Dr. Syrda said that the findings may indicate that married couples may be trying to compensate for deviating from the entrenched gender norm of the "male breadwinner." n

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