Male Doctors Get FOUR TIMES As Many Bonuses As Female Medics (But Only Because They Asked)

• 52% of consultants received bonuses ranging between £17,000 and £77,000
• Of those getting them for the first time, just 65 were women while 252 were men
• Yet both male and female applications for bonuses had the same success rate
• Expert says women are less likely to put themselves forward for such awards

Senior male doctors get four times as many bonuses as their female counterparts, a report has revealed.

The latest figures show that more than 52 per cent of 43,856 NHS hospital consultants in England received some kind of merit-based award ranging between £17,000 and £77,000.

However, out of those receiving them for the first time in 2015 just 65 were women while 252 were men.



More than 52 per cent of 43,856 hospital consultants in England received some kind of bonus ranging between £17,000 and £77,000

Yet the research by the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Award also found that women were at no disadvantage when it came to actually receiving the bonuses they applied for - both male and female consultants had a 26 per cent success rate.

Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, believes the report shows that women are receiving less bonuses because they are less inclined to ask for them.

She told The Sunday Telegraph: 'We find that women are unlikely to put themselves forward unless they feel they can tick all the boxes – whereas by and large men are more likely to just give it a whirl.

'It's the same for new jobs, it's the same for job promotions. But the other issue that concerns us is that they are less likely to be encouraged.

'A lot of the conversations about future careers happen in the men's changing rooms, women just aren't there when these chats are going on.'

The report comes as another public service provider, the BBC, has come under fire after it revealed it has a significant gender pay gap.



Both male and female consultants had a 26 per cent success rate when applying for bonuses

Of the 96 staff who were paid more than £150,000 by the organisation last year, just 34 were women.

Sir Philip Hampton, who is currently co-chairing a review aimed at increasing the women in senior roles in finance, blamed the female presenters themselves for the pay gap claiming that they 'let it happen'.

The City grandee also said that in his experience he had 'never, ever had a woman ask for a pay rise'.

He told the London Evening Standard on Thursday: 'How has this situation arisen at the BBC that these intelligent, high-powered, sometimes formidable women have sat in this situation?

'They are all looking at each other now saying: "how did we let this happen?" I suspect they let it happen because they weren't doing much about it.'

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