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Is thyroid disease a cause of the gender pay gap?

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Hippocratic Post

Is thyroid disease a cause of the gender pay gap? New research has found the adverse effects of thyroid dysfunction on labour market productivity could be a contributing factor to why women earn lower wages than men. One in 20 people in the UK have a thyroid problem, with women six times more likely to […]

Advancing women in science

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Hippocratic Post

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with the Gold Coast Health and the University of Melbourne, have produced a study that provides an insight into why there are so many more male than female surgeons, despite the increasing number of females in medicine as a whole The findings show that initiatives taken to improve […]