For the past 2 decades, the earnings gap between genders has narrowed for pharmacists, making it 1 of the smallest for a high-wage profession. Gender bias is reflected in 2 main areas, pay and opportunity. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest integrated health care system in the country, and the authors performed an analysis to see if there was any evidence of gender bias within its pharmacist workforce. The distribution of pharmacists by gender, age, and years of service was examined and whether part-time employment had any impact was also studied. Overall, there is a high degree of gender egalitarianism in terms of pay and opportunity for pharmacists at the VA. The level of step achievement, and thus, pay for men and women, was not associated with gender but rather years of service.

在过去的20年中，药剂师的性别收入差距有所缩小，是高薪职业中最小的收入差距之一。性别偏见体现在两个主要领域，即薪酬和机会。退伍军人事务部（VA）是该国最大的综合卫生保健系统，作者进行了分析，以查看其药师队伍中是否存在性别偏见的证据。检查了按性别，年龄和服务年限划分的药剂师分布，还研究了兼职工作是否有任何影响。总体而言，就弗吉尼亚州药剂师的薪资和机会而言，性别平等主义的程度很高。步伐的实现水平以及因此男女的工资与性别无关，而与服务年限有关。