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Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

related to their reproductive organs, because there are gender gaps in many other areas of health, not just in reproductive medicine, is a book that's very fun to read called Vagina Obscura by Rachel Gross. She's a New York Times author, and it's an excellent read, very fun as an audiobook or just reading as a book. So I wanted to recommend those two things.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

related to their reproductive organs, because there are gender gaps in many other areas of health, not just in reproductive medicine, is a book that's very fun to read called Vagina Obscura by Rachel Gross. She's a New York Times author, and it's an excellent read, very fun as an audiobook or just reading as a book. So I wanted to recommend those two things.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

related to their reproductive organs, because there are gender gaps in many other areas of health, not just in reproductive medicine, is a book that's very fun to read called Vagina Obscura by Rachel Gross. She's a New York Times author, and it's an excellent read, very fun as an audiobook or just reading as a book. So I wanted to recommend those two things.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So when we get back to that myth that you mentioned that women have lower compensation because they choose to work less, it's very important to really look into that. Firstly, very easy, myth debunked, women urologists work the same number of hours as male urologists do. So if we're looking at it with regards to urology, that is a completely historically false assumption.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So when we get back to that myth that you mentioned that women have lower compensation because they choose to work less, it's very important to really look into that. Firstly, very easy, myth debunked, women urologists work the same number of hours as male urologists do. So if we're looking at it with regards to urology, that is a completely historically false assumption.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So when we get back to that myth that you mentioned that women have lower compensation because they choose to work less, it's very important to really look into that. Firstly, very easy, myth debunked, women urologists work the same number of hours as male urologists do. So if we're looking at it with regards to urology, that is a completely historically false assumption.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

They do work very similar hours in comparison to men. There are some differences that we can go into a little bit more. For example, women tend to see more non-surgical patients. And there are a lot of different reasons why that is the case.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

They do work very similar hours in comparison to men. There are some differences that we can go into a little bit more. For example, women tend to see more non-surgical patients. And there are a lot of different reasons why that is the case.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

They do work very similar hours in comparison to men. There are some differences that we can go into a little bit more. For example, women tend to see more non-surgical patients. And there are a lot of different reasons why that is the case.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

Women physicians, there was a recent article very excellently written that was published recently that says that women ask more questions and they spend more time listening to their patients. And that's certainly true. For our department, for example, and in the clinic that I have the privilege of administering, I noticed that our female doctors do spend more time with patients.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

Women physicians, there was a recent article very excellently written that was published recently that says that women ask more questions and they spend more time listening to their patients. And that's certainly true. For our department, for example, and in the clinic that I have the privilege of administering, I noticed that our female doctors do spend more time with patients.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

Women physicians, there was a recent article very excellently written that was published recently that says that women ask more questions and they spend more time listening to their patients. And that's certainly true. For our department, for example, and in the clinic that I have the privilege of administering, I noticed that our female doctors do spend more time with patients.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

I don't make any assumptions about quality when I talk about that, but the reality is that they do spend more time. And sometimes there's a complications penalty. So if a woman experiences a severe complication with a patient, that can impact the trust that other women partners may have in resending patients, and it may disproportionately impact women and women of color. So those things are there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

I don't make any assumptions about quality when I talk about that, but the reality is that they do spend more time. And sometimes there's a complications penalty. So if a woman experiences a severe complication with a patient, that can impact the trust that other women partners may have in resending patients, and it may disproportionately impact women and women of color. So those things are there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

I don't make any assumptions about quality when I talk about that, but the reality is that they do spend more time. And sometimes there's a complications penalty. So if a woman experiences a severe complication with a patient, that can impact the trust that other women partners may have in resending patients, and it may disproportionately impact women and women of color. So those things are there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So even if the hours worked are the same, there are those impacts. But I also, again, urology is a microcosm of the world. So a lot of the phenomena that happen worldwide, you see within urology. And I wanted to talk about the compensation gap and women choosing to work less.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So even if the hours worked are the same, there are those impacts. But I also, again, urology is a microcosm of the world. So a lot of the phenomena that happen worldwide, you see within urology. And I wanted to talk about the compensation gap and women choosing to work less.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So even if the hours worked are the same, there are those impacts. But I also, again, urology is a microcosm of the world. So a lot of the phenomena that happen worldwide, you see within urology. And I wanted to talk about the compensation gap and women choosing to work less.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So in a working society, there certainly are trends where women gravitate to certain professions at a higher rate than others. And there are a lot of reasons why that occurs and that also contributes to gaps. And I'll explain two reasons why.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 192 Closing the Gender Gap in Urology with Dr. Yahir Santiago-Lastra

So in a working society, there certainly are trends where women gravitate to certain professions at a higher rate than others. And there are a lot of reasons why that occurs and that also contributes to gaps. And I'll explain two reasons why.