All Entries in the "Gender Gap" Category
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.
The Gender Gap in College Enrollments of Recent High School Graduates
New U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in 2019, 61.3 percent of male high school graduates had enrolled in postsecondary education by October of that year. For women high school graduates in 2019, 69.3 percent were enrolled in college by October.
Stanford University Study Finds That Lack of Self Confidence Can Explain Part of the Gender Pay Gap in STEM Fields
Researchers found that women earned $61,000 in their first jobs compared to $65,000 for men, despite having the same degrees and grade point averages. According to the subjects’ answers to questions about their capabilities, the researchers concluded that a portion of the pay gap between men and women could be explained by a gap in self-confidence.
The Gender Gap in Medical School Enrollments Is Widening in Women’s Favor
All told, in 2020, there were 94,243 students enrolled in U.S. medical schools. Women made up 51.5 percent of total enrollments. For the past five years, women’s enrollments have increased by at least 3 percent each year. During the same time period, the enrollment of men has declined slightly.
The Gender Gap in Financing Doctoral Education
About one out of every five women who earned a doctorate paid for their degrees primarily from their own funds or saving. For men who earned doctorates in 2019, only 11.4 percent used their own funds or savings as the primary source for paying for their education. The average graduate student debt for women was 41 percent higher than the average for men.
College Athletic Powerhouses Receive a Grade of F in Gender Equity in Leadership Posts
In the Fall of 2020, there were 23 women who served as president or chancellor of the 130 educational institutions that make up the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA’s Division I. There are only 12 women among the 130 athletic directors at these colleges and universities.
The Gender Gap in Faculty Positions at the University of Michigan
Data from the University of Michigan shows that in 2019, women make up 35 percent of all tenured or tenure-track faculty at the university. As is the case nationally, the gender gap is the most pronounced at the full professor level.
Women Are Far Less Likely Than Men to Die as a Result of Work-Related Injuries, But the Gap is Shrinking
New statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2019, 437 women died from work-related injuries. This was 8.2 percent of all work-related fatalities due to injury. But the number of fatalities suffered by women due to work-related injuries is up 27 percent from 2015.
National Science Foundation Reports a Slight Drop in Doctoral Degree Attainments by Women
The National Science Foundation reports that in 2019, 17,994 American women earned doctorates at U.S. colleges and universities. From 2016 to 2018, more than 18,000 American women earned doctorates each year. Women earning doctoral degrees has increased 10.2 percent since 2010. For men the increase has been 13.1 percent.
Survey Finds Women Are Making Progress in Enrollments at High-Ranking Business Schools
The website Poets & Quants recently released its survey of women at the nation’s highest-ranked business schools. it found that that women made up 49 percent of the students in the entering class at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. This was the largest percentage of women among the top business schools.
New York University Aims to Address the Gender Disparity in Entrepreneurship
The Female Founders Fellowship program supports entrepreneurs by plugging them into NYU’s ecosystem of resources, and, upon graduation, invites them to apply for grants of up to $50,000 each to help alleviate the financial burden of early-career startup costs.
New Census Data Shows a Major Gender Gap in Median Income and Earnings in the United States
In 2018, the median income level for family households headed by a single woman was 69.4 percent of the median income for family households headed by a single man and 47.0 percent of the median income of married-couple families. Both of these income gaps widened from the previous year in 2018.
