TY - JOUR AU - Rodriguez Santana, Idaira PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/06 TI - Becoming a resident in a high demanded medical specialty: an unequal race? Evidence from the Spanish resident market JO - Human Resources for Health SP - 3 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Gender occupational segregation in medicine is associated with several undesired consequences such as earnings disparity, shortages of specialists or lower quality of care among others. This paper focuses on the persistent gender gap observed in the most popular specialties of the Spanish resident market. In particular, it explores the role of the specialty allocation system in perpetuating the occupational segregation. For that purpose, this paper studies the effect of a policy change in the ranking system that determines doctors’ specialty choice order. The change increased the competitiveness of the process by increasing the weight of an entry examination from 75% to 90%, in detriment of doctors’ grade point average that decreased from 25% to 10%. Findings from previous literature suggest that that male and female doctors might have reacted differently to the increased competitiveness of the process. SN - 1478-4491 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-020-00543-2 DO - 10.1186/s12960-020-00543-2 ID - Rodriguez Santana2021 ER -