The healthcare sector is a highly feminized sector where women represent 71.0% of the global workforce and, for Colombia, this percentage rises to 80.3%, yet high wage gaps persist. This study presents an overview that accounts for the current state of the composition of the workforce in the healthcare sector in Colombia from a gender perspective, illustrating the composition of the sector by educational level, analyzing the wage gaps and working conditions of informality, linking it with gender roles and care tasks. In Colombia wage gaps between men and women prevail for all educational levels in the health sector, being larger at specialization levels.