In 2023, a team of Canadian physicians published a study in the Canadian Journal of Surgery asking a direct question: does it pay less to operate on a woman than on a man?

Chaikof and colleagues built a list of matched surgeries — procedures that are roughly equivalent in complexity, time, and training required, but performed on female versus male anatomy. Then they compared what provincial health plans actually paid for each one.

The answer was yes. Across most of the provinces studied, surgeons were paid meaningfully less for procedures done on women — 26.7% less, on average. Saskatchewan showed the largest gap in the country, at 67.3%. British Columbia was close behind at 61.2%.

Dans ce podcast on explore les opportunités et les risques juridiques liés à l'intégration de l'intelligence artificielle dans les processus d'embauche, avec un accent particulier sur le contexte des PME canadiennes. L'épisode met en lumière comment, malgré les gains d'efficacité, ces outils peuvent involontairement perpétuer des biais historiques et créer une exclusion algorithmique.