“Salaries for female physicians average some $19,879 — eight percent lower than male physicians. At academic hospitals, male physicians receive more research funding and are more than twice as likely as female physicians to rise to the rank of full professor.” Is there a category where female doctors score higher than their male counterparts? Yes. Quality of care. From The Atlantic’s James Hamblin: New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.