Table 3. Office-based and salaried employment by sex (%).

	Women	Men	Difference (women-men)	Statistical significance
Salaried physician in a hospital (n = 10 906)	75.7	80.5	–4.8	p <0.01
Specialist with own office (n = 11 555)	73.6	74.5	–0.9	not significant
Salaried physician in an ambulatory healthcare center (n = 11 486)	61.6	46.2	15.4	p <0.01
Salaried physician in an office (n = 11 481)	57.9	32.5	25.4	p <0.01
Primary care physician with own office (n = 11 468)	39.2	36.3	2.9	p <0.01
Salaried physician in research (n = 11 491)	20.2	28.5	–8.3	p <0.01
Salaried physician in public health service (n = 11 472)	20.6	15.7	4.9	p <0.01
Salaried physician in pharmaceutical industry (n = 11 493)	9.0	18.6	–9.6	p <0.01
Salaried physician for a health insurance provider (n = 10 854)	5.2	6.2	–1.0	not significant
Own office (overall)	77.2	77.5	–0.3	not significant
Salaried employment in clinical care (overall)	94.1	90.5	3.6	p <0.01
Salaried employment in ambulatory care	74.7	53.9	20.8	p <0.01

Modified from: Heinz A, Jacob R: Medizinstudenten und ihre Berufsperspektiven. In welcher Fachrichtung, wo und wie wollen sie arbeiten? Bundesgesundheitsbl 2012; 55: 245–53. Reproduced by kind permission of Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg