Age. Experience. Specialty. 

These are some of the many factors that have been used to explain why women make up about half of medical school graduates yet only 13 percent of medical school department leaders and make less than men. 

But even when controlling for these factors, the pay gap persists for faculty at public medical schools, a new study finds. For a likely explanation, that leaves plain old bias.

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