Career interruptions for childcare cost female physicians earning power, says a German study (A. Evers and M. Sieverding Psychol. Women Q. 38, 93–106; 2014). The authors surveyed medical students in 1989, asking in part about attitudes towards medical school. A poll of the same cohort 15 years later revealed that earnings correlate with career absences, not with the respondents' earlier outlook. Some 87% of the 47 female respondents reported absences of an average of 1.8 years, mostly for childcare; just under two-thirds of the 52 men reported absences of an average of 7.2 months, mainly for non-employment. Roughly 90% of men were earning more than €36,000 (US$49,440) a year, compared with 55% of women.