All Entries in the "Gender Gap" Category
The Productivity Penalty Impacting New Mothers in the Academic World
Despite strides in family-leave offerings, and men taking a greater role in parenting, women in academia still experience about a 20 percent drop in productivity after having a child, while their male counterparts generally do not, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The Stubborn Gender Pay Gap in Academic Medicine
A new study finds that women starting out their careers in academic medicine are paid less than men in almost all areas of medicine. The authors conclude that equalizing starting salaries would address the majority of the differences in earning potential.
Women Earn Less Than Men in All Fifty States
The gender gap was the largest in the state of Wyoming. There, women earned only 63 cents for every dollar earned by men. Vermont has the lowest gender earning gap. There, the median earnings of men were $51,241 compared to median earnings of $46,641 for women. Thus, women made 91 cents to the dollar earned by men.
How Gender Disparities in Wealth Impact Higher Education
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new data on household wealth in 2019. The statistics show that the median net worth of households headed by single men was $50,150 in 2019. For households headed by a single woman, the median net worth was $36,600. About 80 percent of all single-parent families are headed by women.
Grading the Schools With the Largest Athletic Programs on Their Gender Diversity in Leadership Posts
The latest report on the status of women and racial and ethnic minorities in leadership positions at the 130 educational institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCCA has been released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida. These are generally the schools with the nation’s largest athletic programs.
American Women Save Less for Retirement Than Their Male Peers
About 50 percent of women ages 55 to 66 have no personal retirement savings, compared to 47 percent of men. Women also lag men in the amount of retirement savings. Some 22 percent of women have $100,000 or more in personal retirement savings compared to 30 percent of men.
Women Are a Small Percentage of Finance Faculty But Some Slow Progress Is Being Made
A new study conducted by Mila G. Sherman, professor of finance in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Heather Tookes, professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, finds that only 16 percent of the finance faculty at the nation’s top business schools are women.
The Extent of Gender and Racial Bias in Academic Research
A new study of more than 5 million articles published between 2008 and 2019 — primarily by U.S.-based researchers found that Black, Latino, and women authors are underrepresented in many STEM fields and often appear as authors only in less-cited fields.
New Reports Examines the Impact of a Women College or University President on the Gender Pay Gap in Academia
A new report from CUPA-HR finds that female senior institutional officers, institutional administrators, and heads of divisions are paid more equitably at institutions with a female president than at institutions with a male president.
Women Still Vastly Underrepresented Among Presidents of the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
A new report from the Women’s Power Gap Initiative at the Eos Foundation, in partnership with the American Association of University Women, finds that women make up only 22 percent of the presidents at the nation’s major research universities. Most striking is the fact that 60 of these 130 research universities have never had a woman president.
Disgusted by a Professor’s Remarks, Boise State University Senior Raises Funds for Women in STEM
After a faculty member stated that “making special efforts to recruit women into fields where they don’t seem to want to be” should cease, Ally Orr, a senior at Boise State, responded with a GoFundMe campaign that raised $70,000 for the Women in STEM, Medicine and Law Scholarship. The scholarship will help fund the education of women in these fields at Boise State this fall.
In Workers Compensation Cases, Women Win More Money When Their Doctors Are Women
A new study from economics researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Chicago showed that female claimants were 5 percent more likely to be evaluated as disabled and received about 8.5 percent more in cash benefits when the doctor assigned to their claim was female rather than male. There was no difference for male patients.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
In Minnesota, women earned 919 doctorates compared to only 626 men. Thus. women earned nearly three firths of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the highest percentage in the nation. In Wyoming, women made up only 34 percent of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the lowest percentage in the nation.
New Data Finds Wide Gender Disparities in Specialties of Medical Residents
The data shows there were 46,257 men who had graduated from U.S. or Canadian medical schools who were serving as medical residents in 2020-21. There were 41,405 women medical residents. Thus, women were 47.2 percent of all medical residents who had graduated from medical schools in the U.S. or Canada. Women were vastly underrepresented in many surgical fields.
The Wide Gender Gap in Doctoral Degree Awards in Specific Academic Disciplines
Women made up a small majority of all U.S. citizens or permanent residents who earned doctorates in 2020. But when we look at doctorate degree awards in specific disciplines, we find a continuing wide gender gap in many specific disciplines.
More Evidence of the Adverse Effects of the Pandemic on Women’s Scholarly Activity
In an examination of article submissions to more than 2,300 journals published by Elsevier, the authors found that while the number of manuscripts submitted to journals generally increased during the first wave of the pandemic compared to similar months in the two prior years, the number of manuscripts submitted by men was higher than those submitted by women.
The Gender Gap in Voter Participation Rates of College Students
In 2020, 64 percent of women college students voted compared to 58 percent of male students. The voter participation rate at women’s colleges was particularly high, significantly higher than for college students generally. In 2020, 76 percent of all students at women’s colleges cast ballots.
The Lack of Gender Diversity in Climate Change Research
Several recent studies have shown that women are only a small percentage of the leading researchers in climate change, according to the number of published research appears and citations of published scholarly work.
Is the Gender Wage Gap Due to Women’s Lack of Assertiveness in Negotiations?
A recent study led by Denise L. Reyes, a new assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston, comes to the conclusion that the salary gap between men and women may be due to certain personality traits, specifically – assertiveness.
Report Finds Glaring Gender Disparities in NCAA Division I Basketball Tournaments
The report from an independent law firm found that “the experience of the women’s tournament participants was markedly different from and inferior to that of the men’s tournament participants. The NCAA’s organizational structure and culture prioritize men’s basketball, contributing to gender inequity . . . in large part because the vast majority of the NCAA’s current revenue comes from men’s basketball.”
Study Examines How Religion Impacts the Gender Pay Gap in the United States and Worldwide
A study by Traci Sitzmann, a professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver and Elizabeth Campbell an assistant professor in the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, finds that religion may be a significant factor in the worldwide gender pay gap. They also found that the wage gap is lower in the more secular states in the U.S.
New Data Shows That Men Outperform Women on the Architect Registration Examination
For the first time, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards has released demographic data on passage rates for its Architect Registration Examination, which is required for licensure throughout the United States. The passage rate for women was significantly lower than the rate for men on several of the six sections of the examination.
American Association of University Women Examines the Gender Pay Gap and How to Eliminate It
In 2019, men had a median income of $57,456, while women had a median income of $47,299 — a wage gap of 18 percent. Based on recent progress, the AAUW report calculates that White women will reach pay parity with men by the year 2069. But for Black women, the trend suggests that they won’t reach wage parity until 2369, nearly 250 years from now.
A Gender Salary Gap Persists for Faculty in Some Internal Medicine Disciplines
The study found that in academic medicine specialties with greater female representation were consistently those in which all physicians had lower salaries. The widest pay discrepancy of 21 percent was in the field of cardiology.
The Gender Gap in Inventors in the Biomedical Field Impacts the Gender Focus of What Is Invented
A new study finds that patents in the biomedical field with all-female inventor teams were 35 percent more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. Thus, they concluded that had male and female inventors been equally represented over the 1976 to 2010 period, there would have been an additional 6,500 more female-focused inventions.
Women Making Slow Progress on Corporate Boards, But Women Board Members Are Making an Impact
A new study by Seema Pissaris, a clinical professor of international business at Florida International University in Miami, finds that the presence of women on boards of directors brings actual change, contributing to aspects of firm strategy concerned with acquisition, allocation, and deployment of key assets and resources.
Medical Journal Articles Authored by Women Are Cited Less Often Than Articles Authored by Men
A new study by Paula Chatterjee an assistant professor of general internal medicine and Rachel Werner, executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, finds that articles published by women in high-impact medical journals have fewer citations than those written by men, especially when women are primary and senior authors.
Report Documents the Employment Shortfall of Women in the Tech Workforce
A new report from the Computing Technology Industry Association offers a wealth of data on employment in the technology sector. Some of the data included in the report on employment in technology jobs is broken down by gender. Nationally, women represent approximately 49 percent of the U.S. workforce and 26 percent of the workforce in tech occupations.
Oregon State University Scholars Explore How to Get More Women Students in Advanced Economic Courses
The study examined whether mass emails telling introductory economic students about promising career and earning opportunities helped increase women’s participation in higher-level economics courses. But these emails appealed more to male students, increasing male enrollment and widening the existing gender gap.
Women in High-Net-Worth Households Tend to Leave the Financial Decisions to Men
In all different sex, married-couple families, men are deemed more knowledgable about financial matters in slightly more than half of all households. But among high-net-worth married couples, the husband was rated most knowledgable on finances in 90 percent of the households.
Pew Research Center Report Documents Gender Gap in STEM Degree Attainment and Employment
Women now earn a majority of all undergraduate and advanced degrees. But they remain a small share of degree earners in fields like engineering and computer science – areas where they are significantly underrepresented in the workforce. And when women do find work in STEM fields they tend to earn less than men.
Census Data Shows Women Making Snail-Like Progress in Business Ownership
Women-owned firms made up only 19.9 percent of all firms that employed people in the United States in 2018. Women-owned firms earned an average of $1.6 million in sales, shipments, or revenue; male-owned firms’ earnings were double that at $3.2 million.
Women’s Employment Took a Hard Hit From COVID-19, But the Gender Gap Has Now Evaporated
Before the pandemic, the unemployment rate for women was below the rate for men. By April 2020, the unemployment rate for women increased by fivefold, a larger increase than for men. By October, the unemployment rate for women once again dropped below the rate for men and has remained so through February 2021.
Women Are Scarce Among the Top Earners at America’s Most Prestigious Universities
The report from the American Association of University Women found that women were only 24 percent of the top-10 earners at 130 elite universities. At eight of the 130 universities, there were no women among the top-10 earners. A woman was the highest-salaried employee at just 18 percent of the institutions surveyed.
Women Making Snail-Like Progress in College Coaching and Sports Administration
The latest report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida finds that women held the head coaching job for only 41 percent of all women’s athletic teams in the NCAA’s Division I. In contrast, 95.8 percent of all head coaches for men’s teams in Division I are men.
