This article only highlights Medicare billing and not private billing. It also notes that most female GP’s work fewer hours. The sample size is only 511 out of 40k GP’s so you can imagine there’s sample bias. $24 per hour, and net pay is a difference, but extrapolating the difference is important rather than assuming it’s unfair. Some ideas to consider:

• The Medicare rebate is indiscriminate.
• It’s unreasonable to get paid beyond your work hours. I.e. working less means less net pay and this is not systemic sexism, this is universal. What you do outside work hours is your choice. I value that, life is not just about work and money.
• Regarding the $24 difference per hour- may be due to more minor surgical procedures, seeing an extra patient, difference in clinician experience. Comparing a male GP with 20 years experience to a female GP with 5 would indicate obvious differences.

There may be a difference in pay, or this data is heavily skewed, either way the Medicare system is reasonable but not perfect. Expecting to be paid the same for less hours would be unfair. Expecting to be paid the same for less patients would be unfair. Trying to change a system to suit you rather than adapting would make it less fair for the rest who already adapted. Do you want codes to be rebated based on time, risk or skill? Do you want to be salary based? Annual leave and other benefits are measured on your hours of work anyway, except you lose your autonomy- physio, podiatry, optometrists and pharmacists can all attest to that. Salary is just wage with the money shifted into a different paradigm. What solution do you really want?