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College Does Very Little to Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap
A new study by Antoinette Flores of the Center for American Progress found that for students who participated in federal financial aid programs while in college, working women’s earnings 10 years after they first enrolled in college are lower than working men’s earnings only six years after enrolling in colleges.
Survey of Drugs on College Campuses Finds Women Are Less Frequent Users
A new report from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan finds that illicit drug use is more prevalent among male college students than it is among women college students.
New Census Report Shows a Huge Gender Gap in Income in the United States
The median income of households headed by a single woman in the United States in 2015 was $37,797. These households made up 19 percent of all family households in the United States. Their median income was just 44.7 percent of the median income of married-couple families.
University Study Finds a Continuing Gender Gap in Hollywood Productions
A survey conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California, found that of the 100 top-grossing films in 2015, women were just 31.4 percent of all the actors who held speaking roles. Women were 4.1 percent of the directors, 11.8 percent of the writers, and less than 1 percent of the composers that worked on Hollywood films.
Georgia Tech Announces New Initiatives to Enhance Gender Equality on Campus
The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta has announced 11 steps it is taking over the next two years to promote gender equity and inclusion on campus. Women make up just 35 percent of the 15,000-member undergraduate student body at Georgia Tech and hold 0nly 28 percent of the highest-level staff positions.
Are Women’s Gains in Business School Being Reflected in the Entrepreneurial Economy?
The Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs finds that women owned 1.1 million businesses with paid employees. These made up 19.4 percent of all firms with paid employees. The women-owned firms had total sales of $1.3 trillion in 2014. But this was a mere 4 percent of the sales of all firms with paid employees.
University Study Find a Huge Gender Gap in Stress Levels for Forensic Scientists
The study, led by researchers at Michigan State University, found that 78 percent of all forensic scientists reported mid to high levels of stress with women nearly twice as likely as men to report high stress levels.
A Large Gender Gap Remains in Faculty Positions at Vanderbilt University
Women equal men in undrgraduate enrollments and women are 58 percent of all graduate students and all staff at the university. Yet, women are only 30 percent of the tenured or tenure-track faculty and only 21 percent of the full professors.
University of Waterloo Gives Bonus to Women Faculty Members to Address the Gender Pay Gap
The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has taken steps in the past to address the issue of the gender pay gap. But a new study found that the gap has reemerged. As a result, the university announced that all women faculty members of record on April 30, 2015 will receive a payment of $2,905 to address the gender pay gap.
New Census Bureau Report Documents the Large and Growing Gender Gap in STEM Jobs
In 2014, only 25 percent of jobs in the information technology sector were held by women. Even more troubling is the fact that the percentage of women in high-tech jobs has declined in recent years. In 1990, women held 31 percent of all job positions in information technology.
University of North Carolina Charlotte Aims to Address the Gender Gap in Computer Science
The College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has launched a new Women in Computing Initiative. The goal is to increase the number of women majoring in computer science at the university and to help them succeed and earn their degrees.
European Union Creates a New Commission to Advance Gender Equality in Higher Education
Women make up about 20 percent of all high-level academics in member countries of the European Union. And only 10 percent of the rectors of European universities are women.
Report Finds a Large Gender Pay Gap for Physician Faculty Members at State-Operated Medical Schools
Using public data on salaries of 10,000 physician faculty members at 24 state-operated medical schools, the authors found that on average women faculty members at large state-operated medical schools earned about $51,000 less than their male peers. When controlling for age, rank, and other factors, a large $20,000 pay gap remained.
Calculus May Be A Major Factor Diverting Women From Studying in STEM Disciplines
A new report led by Jessica F. Ellis, an assistant professor of mathematics education at Colorado State University, supplies an explanation for why women tend to leave STEM disciplines in higher education at a higher rate than men. The culprit may be an aversion to advanced calculus.
The U.S. Medical Schools That Graduate the Highest Number of Women
During the 2014-15 academic year, the University of Illinois issued medial degrees to 156 women, the most of any medical school in the United States. At many high ranking-medical schools, women graduates outnumbered men.
University of Virginia Holds Girls’ Day to Boost Interest in the Building and Construction Trades
The facilities management department, which has 1,200 employees, hosted 40 young women who toured campus facilities, saw designs and mock-ups of new buildings, were able to use 3-D printer systems.
Stopping the Tenure Clock May Help Men More Than Women
A study led by Heather Antecol, the Boswell Profess0r of Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California, finds that men may actually benefit from policies that delay the tenure clock for all new parents more so than women.
University Study Finds a Major Gender Gap in State Judgeship Appointments
The authors assembled a database of more than 10,000 state judges who hear about 90 percent of all court cases in the United States, according to the authors. They found that no state had a judiciary that equaled the percentage of women in the state’s population.
New Federal Report Documents the Very Low Wages of the Largely Female Preschool Workforce
According to the report, preschool teachers earn annual wages that average about $28,500. This is only 55 percent of the average wage of kindergarten teachers. Some 97 percent of all early childhood educators are women.
A Check-Up on the Status of Women on U.S. Medical School Faculties
In 2015, there were 61,924 women teaching at U.S. medical schools. They made up 38.7 percent of the total faculty. Women were even more underrepresented at the highest faculty ranks. Only 28.3 percent of all full professors were women in 2015.
Gender Differences in Violent Crime Victimization for International Students
A new study by researchers at Georgia State University and the University of West Georgia finds that college students from outside the United States are less likely than American students to be victims of violent crime on campus. The study found that this is particularly true for women.
New Global Study Finds a Closing Gender Gap in Education Is Not Closing the Economic Gender Gap
Worldwide women are closing the gender gap in education. But a new study by economist Stephanie Seguino of the University of Vermont finds that these educational gains have failed to close the gender gap in income or political representation.
How Educational Attainment Impacts Marital Status for Young Men and Women
The data shows that as young men and women move up the educational ladder, they are more likely to married than their less-educated peers. But large gender gaps remain at all educational levels.
University of Kansas Study Finds Gender Gap in Censorship of Student Journalists
The survey of high school student journalists found that 41 percent of the girl journalists had been told not to write or talk about a certain subject in student media by a school employee. Only 28 percent of male journalists reported that they had been censored by a school officials.
Women Accepted for Admission at High-Ranking Colleges and Universities
Recently, the nation’s highest-ranked colleges and universities informed applicants if they had been accepted for admission. Some of the nation’s most selective institutions provided acceptance data broken down by gender.
Student Journalists Find a Huge Gender Gap in Faculty Salaries at the University of Virginia
Reporters for the student newspaper at the University of Virginia found only two women among the 20 highest-paid employees of the university. Teresa Sullivan, president of the university was the fifth highest-paid employee.
University of Washington Making Strides Reducing the Gender Gap in Information Technology
The university states that of the 210 students enrolled in its undergraduate informatics program, 40 percent are women. Nationwide, women earn less than 20 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in the field.
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States
While the gender gap in the overall educational attainment of the adult U.S. population is small, the considerable advantage of women over men in current college enrollments and current degree attainments, will undoubtedly expand the overall gender gap in educational attainment in the years ahead.
In Faculty Evaluations, Men Are Far More Likely Than Women to Be Referred to as “Brilliant” or “Genius”
The authors write that “across the fields represented on RateMyProfessors.com, superlatives about intelligence were used 2 to 3 times more often about male than about female instructors — a difference that further illustrates our culture’s negative attitudes toward women’s intellects.”
The Gender Earnings Gap for Teachers Is Highest at the Postsecondary Level
In the field of education, women earn less than men at all levels. But the gender gap in earnings is less than the national average for all occupations. However, at the postsecondary level, the gender gap in earnings is higher than for teachers at the elementary or secondary levels.
How the University of California, Irvine Narrowed the Gender Faculty Gap
In the early 1990s, women accounted for just 20 percent of the faculty at the Irvine campus. In 2001, the university adopted the ADVANCE program that designated 10 senior faculty member to act as equity advisers in faculty searches. Today women make up 34 percent of the total faculty.
Women Are 12 Percent of the Members of Scientific Academies Worldwide
A new report from the Academy of Science of South Africa finds that Cuba has the highest representation of women in scientific societies with 27 percent. Women are only 4 percent of the members of scientific societies in Poland and Tanzania. In the United States, the survey found that women make up 13 percent of membership of the National Academy of Sciences.
Study Finds Gender Bias Among Students in Undergraduate Biology Classrooms
A new study led by researchers at the University of Washington, found that men enrolled in undergraduate courses in biology consistently rank their male peers as being more knowledgeable and competent in the coursework than their female classmates, even when the women performed better academically in the course.
University of California, San Francisco Addresses the Gender Gap in Faculty Pay
The good news is that in the schools of dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy there was no gender pay gap. In the School of Medicine a gender gap in salary pay was identified in seven of 28 academic departments. As a result, the university paid out $1.5 million to those who received unequal pay and made the necessary salary adjustments.
American Council on Education Report on the Status of Women in Higher Education
In 2014, women held only 31 percent of all full professorships at colleges and universities in the United States. Women make less than men at all faculty levels. And women are less than 30 percent of all college and university presidents.
