The 2nd portion about the difference in pay for doctors, I did not understand it to be only in regards to part-time positions. I will read it again.I have a customer hospital whose single female gynaecologist earns only 66% of her male counterparts' salaries because she works only 5/10. In the stats, she earns less. In reality, do the math. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1