Media release

From: Pasifika Medical Association Group

The gender pay gap for academic women of Asian ethnicity at The University of Auckland is 33.5%. Medicine has a hierarchy and this viewpoint serves to raise consciousness and shift the status quo. The authors of this paper are Asian women academics at various career stages  contributing to scholarly dialogue on concerns on reasons why Asian diaspora women do not advance in medicine and health sciences. Gender bias is recognised as a widespread problem that occurs more widely in other institutions but Asian women fare worse than all other groups, facing a “double jeopardy” of gender and racial bias. We discuss what institutions can do and be in terms of accountability, transparency and having a strategic response to ensure women of colour are valued and retained in academia.