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Gender bias has been described in anesthesiology.Inequalities in compensation and career advancement have been reported. Gender-based assumptions, such as the perception of women as less agentic (associated with stereotypically masculine qualities such as independence and ambition) and more communal (associated with stereotypically feminine qualities such as gentleness and dependence), are a possible explanation for these gender-based discrepancies. Case scheduling within academic anesthesia departments consists of assigning attending anesthesiologists (attendings) to supervise up to four Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) or up to two resident physicians (residents). By supervising CRNAs, the attending has the potential to oversee more cases and may have a greater opportunity to earn American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) units and Relative Value Units (RVUs). We hypothesized that female anesthesia attendings are assigned at increased frequency to residents and produce less ASA units and less RVUs, compared to male colleagues.

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