All Entries in the "Gender Gap" Category
Percentage of Women Among Early Admits at the Georgia Institute of Technology Reaches a New High
In 2015, women made up 41 percent of all students admitted under Georgia Tech’s early action admissions plan. This was an all-time high. But this year, 48 percent of all students admitted under the early action admissions plan are women.
The Gender Gap in Salaries for Business School Graduates
The data shows that women earned slightly lower salaries in their first jobs after graduating from business school than men. But six to eight years after leaving business schools, a significant gender gap in median salaries had opened up.
New Report Shows Status of Women in Academic Medicine
A new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges finds that while women have made some progress in academic medicine, they have a very long way to go before they near parity with men.
Is the Gender Wage Gap Responsible for Higher Rates of Anxiety and Depression Among Women?
Using a survey of more than 22,000 adults, researchers at Columbia University found that women, who were paid less than their male counterparts with similar ages, work experience, family status, and education, were 2.5 times as likely to suffer from major depression and four times as likely to experience anxiety.
In Economics, Women’s Contributions to Published Works Are Valued Less
A new study by Heather Sarsons, a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard University, finds that women who collaborate with men on published works do not receive the same credit in the “publish or perish” world of academia.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
Nationwide men earned nearly 4,200 more doctoral degrees than women in 2014. But there were several states where women earned more doctorates than men. The states with the highest percentage of women among their doctoral degree awardees were Alaska, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.
Website Documents Gender Differences in Professor Evaluations
Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston, has established a website where visitors to the site can explore how often different words are used to describe professors broken down by gender.
The Number of Women-Owned Businesses Is on the Rise
As women have increasingly begun to earn more bachelor’s degree in business and more MBAs, it would make sense to believe that women would be gaining ground in business ownership in the United States. New data from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms that this is so.
Examining the Gender Pay Gap at the University of Texas
The data shows that the average salary for male faculty and staff at the university was $9,700 more than the average for women. In the 290 academic and administrative departments at the university, men made more than women in 202 departments. Of the 100 highest-paid employees at the university, only 20 are women.
Women Are Nearly Two Thirds of All U.S. College Students Who Study Abroad
The data shows that during the 2013-14 academic year, 304,467 American students went abroad to engage in academic pursuits at foreign colleges and universities. Of 304,467 American students who studied abroad that year, 65.3 percent were women
University of Kansas Scholars Assess the Status of Women in U.S. Army Special Forces
Scholars at the University of Kansas, in conjunction with the Women’s Foundation and Army Research Institute, have released the results of Project Diane, which assessed the status of women in the Special Operations units of the American military.
New Data on the Gender Gap in Degree Attainments
For the 2013-14 academic year, the data shows that women received 1,886,440 degrees from four-year institutions. This was 58.1 percent of all degrees earned at these institutions. Women earned an even higher percentage of all awards at private colleges and universities and at for-profit institutions.
Duke University Study Finds a Huge Gender Gap in Cardiology
The study found that women make up about 12 percent of all cardiologists, whereas women now make up almost half of all medical school graduates. Male cardiologists tended to make an average of $100,000 more per year. The data also showed that for men and women cardiologists in the same specialty, men made about $32,000 more.
The Gender Gap in Advanced Placement Program Participation
Women make up a very large percentage of all AP test takers on subjects such as studio art, French, Spanish, psychology, and art history. But women are only a small minority of all test takers in disciplines such as physics and computer science.
Study Finds Significant Gender Gap in Job Status and Income for Humanities Degree Holders
More than 16 percent of men who held a bachelor’s degree in the humanities were employed in management positions compared to 11.6 percent of women with humanities degrees. For those in the 34-to-54 age group, the gender gap in median income for humanities graduates was $17,000.
University Study Finds Great Progress for Women, But Earnings Still Lag Those of Men
In 1980 men led women in educational attainment, occupational status and earnings. By 2005, women outpaced men in both educational attainment and job status but there was still a $11,428 gap in earnings.
A Milestone Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently celebrated a major milestone with the hiring this year of its 200th tenured woman professor since its founding 1893. Since then several other women have been hired pushing the total number to 214.
Checking Up on the Gender Gap in Medical School Applications and Enrollments
In 2015 women made up 48.7 percent of all applicants to U.S. medical school. That same year, women were 47.8 percent of all entering students at medical schools. Over the past decade the percentage of women among entering students has decreased slightly from 48.5 percent fo 47.8 percent.
Montana State Program Has Eliminated the Gender Gap in Faculty Hiring in STEM Fields
Over the past three years, 53 percent of new faculty hires in STEM fields at the university have been women compared with 24 percent over the previous three years. Women who received job offers were 5.8 times more likely to accept the offer than was the case previously.
UCLA’s Business School’s Self-Examination of Gender Inequality
The Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles commissioned a report by the consulting group Korn Ferry International to examine why there has been persisting gender inequality in faculty appointments.
Study to Examine Gender Differences in Faculty Workloads
The Faculty Workload and Rewards Project, funded by a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, will examine faculty workloads in 42 academic departments at 13 public universities in Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
A “Troubling” Trend in Women Faculty Retention at Harvard
The Dean’s Annual Report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University shows that women are 28 percent of all ladder faculty. The dean also reported that a third of all women junior faculty leave Harvard before completing the tenure review process.
University Study Finds a Genetic Factor in the Gender Gap for Insomnia
About 10 percent of the U.S. population experiences chronic insomnia and previous research has shown that women are more likely than men to develop insomnia symptoms. This study led by Mackenzie Lind, a graduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University, finds that genetics may explain the gender gap.
Study Finds a Gender Gap in Juvenile Justice Incarceration
A new study, led by Erin Espinosa of the University of Texas, found that girls were held in pretrial detention five days longer on average than boys despite the fact that their offenses tended to be less serious. Females were released from confinement at a much slower pace than males.
Academic Study Links Childhood Stress and Obesity in Women
A new study by sociologists at Michigan State University and the University of Texas at Austin has found a correlation between childhood stress and weight gain when women get older. Adult stress also was related to weight gain among women but not to the same degree. There was no link between stress and weight gain in men.
EEOC Finds a Gender Pay Gap at the University of Denver College of Law
Professor Lucy March, who has taught at the university since 1976 and has been a full professor since 1982, earned a salary of $109,000 under the law school’s merit pay system. The median salary for full professors at the law school was $149,000.
Recognition Is a Better Motivator Than Money for Improving Academic Performance, Particularly for Young Girls
A few school districts now give monetary rewards for students who perform well in the classroom. But a new study, led by researchers at Vanderbilt University, finds the money may not be the best incentive to improve performance, particularly for young girls.
University Study Finds Lack of Gender Diversity in Hollywood’s Top-Grossing Films
Women were less than one third of the actors with speaking roles in the 100 top-grossing films. More than one quarter of all women with speaking roles in the 100 top-grossing films of 2014 were shown in some degree of nudity.
Among Young College Graduates the Gender Pay Gap Is Tiny but Grows Significantly Thereafter
Among recent college graduates women earn roughly 97 cents on the dollar compared with men who have the same college major and perform the same jobs. In 29 of the 73 college majors analyzed in this report, young women college graduates actually earned more than men. But the gender gap in favor of men grows quickly thereafter.
Explaining the Gender Gap in Some STEM Fields: Lower Mathematics Training in K-12 Years
A new analysis of scores on the Graduate Record Examination shows that women are not as well-trained in mathematics as men and this alone explains the large gender gap in STEM fields where mastery of mathematics is essential.
Florida International University’s Research on the Gender Gap in the Nation’s Newsrooms
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University in Miami has teamed up with the American Society of News Editors to collect and analyze data on the presence of women and minorities in the nation’s newsrooms.
Cornell University Program Seeks to Increase the Number of Women Op-Ed Writers
The Public Voices Fellows who were selected at Cornell have participated in workshops to train them to write for non-academic audiences. The Fellows were also prepared with tools that help them pitch their ideas to editors at various media outlets.
The Earnings Boost From a College Degree Benefits Men More Than Women
Researchers at the University of Kansas found that lifetime earnings for men with a college degree, including those with a graduate degree, were $1,130,000 more than for men who only graduated from high school. For women the comparable figure was $792,000.
Tracking the Gender Gap in High School Dropout Rates
In 2012, 7.3 percent of males ages 16 to 24 were not in school and did not have a high school graduation credential. For women, the comparable figure is 5.9 percent. The good news is that the dropout rate for both men and women has shown a steady decline since 1995.
Michigan State University Research Finds Criminal Arrests of Women Are on the Rise, Not So for Men
During the 1993-to-2012 period arrest rates for men were down 12.5 percent. For women, the arrest rate increased by 26.7 percent. If only violent crimes were considered, the arrest rates for men were down 13.5 percent but were up a whopping 53.2 percent for women.
