This study was designed to investigate gender differences in the USA, in anticipated professional income.
Others have found gender differences in the content of written professional reflections [ 36], with female students being less confident, more concerned with balance between private and professional life.
While both men and women valued the communication skills of health professionals, there were some gender differences in the emphasis put on different aspects of communication.
Gender differences in educational attainment show that among professionals from Eastern Europe, women are more likely to hold an associate's degree or a bachelor's degree, but less likely to hold a Ph.D. degree than men.
Gender differences in occupational concentrations suggest that Eastern European professional women are predominantly healthcare workers or educators and men tend to hold managerial or computer-related occupations.
Similarly, gender differences in the tooth brushing frequency among dental professionals was not observed in Australia, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Korean and the US [ 8- 10] This has been explained as the role of professional education in overcoming such differences [ 5, 11].
Gender differences in average earnings tended to be less pronounced among science professionals than among nursing and midwifery professionals, according to the most recent survey findings for which data were available.
Therefore, primary healthcare professionals should pay attention to gender differences in the impact of obesity on HRQOL when evaluating population-based health programmes.
Instead, we suggest that the structure of majors and their linkages to professional training and careers may combine with gender differences in educational goals to influence the persisting gender gap in STEM fields.
In particular, primary healthcare professionals should pay more attention to gender differences in the impacts of obesity on HRQOL when evaluating population-based health programmes.
