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Wellesley College Survey Shows Young Woman Are Worried About Their Futures
A new survey by Lake Research Partners, commissioned by Wellesley College, finds that young women are facing financial anxiety, stress about finding well-paying jobs, and concern about balancing their careers and personal life in the future.
Research Examines Gender Pay Gap for Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University-wide, women faculty members on average had a annual salary of $89,943. Men on the university’s faculty had an average salary of $108,668. Thus, the average salary for women faculty members was only 83 percent of the average salaries of men on the faculty.
Do Alcohol Advertisements Impact College Students’ Willingness to Coerce Others for Sex?
For college men’s intentions to sexually coerce using alcohol, there were significant interaction effects between exposure to highly objectified advertisements and gender stereotypes. For women’s intentions to sexually coerce using alcohol, the interaction between wishful identification with the models in the advertisements and perceived realism was significant.
Do Corporations Add More Women to Their Boards After Increased Public Attention to Gender Equity Issues?
A new study finds that on average, more women earn positions on U.S. public company boards following rises in public attention to gender equality issues, such as the Me Too movement, but this increase in representation largely happens at firms where a more inclusive corporate culture already exists.
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.
Study Finds the Gender Gap in Household Work Expands for Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands
Research involving 6,000 heterosexual couples found that the gender housework gap actually gets bigger for women who earned more than their spouses – the more they earned over their partner, the more housework they did.
Researchers Examine Gender Differences in Facial Size and Shape to Aid Those Seeking Gender-Affirming Facial Surgery
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Calgary set out to quantify the effect of sex on adult facial size and shape through an analysis of three-dimensional facial surface images. Their work aimed to help transgender individuals who desire facial features that better reflect their gender identity.
Women Continue to Make Gains in Medical School Enrollments
In 2021, there were 50,328 women students enrolled at U.S. medical schools. They made up 52.7 percent of all medical school students. In 2019, women made up a majority of all medical school enrollments for the first time.
New Survey Finds Vast Job Dissatisfaction Among Women in the Academic World
A new poll conducted by the Gallup organization finds that 28 percent of women in the academic world report they believe they were passed over for a promotion or opportunity at work because of their gender. This is approximately double the national average of 15 percent among working women in general.
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.
Addressing the Gender Gap in Class Participation in STEM Fields
Researchers at Princeton University found that women generally speak far less than men in undergraduate engineering classes. Only 20 percent of all comments were made by women. But when classes were taught by women instructors, the gender gap practically disappeared. Also, women were much more likely to speak after another woman had spoken in class.
Gender Differences in the Estimation of Individual IQ Levels
A new study examines why men tend to overestimate their IQs and women on average underestimate their IQs. The researchers call this the “male-hubris, female-humility effect.”
New CDC Reports Show Gender Differences in Tobacco Usage
In 2020, 24.5 percent of all male adults used some type of tobacco product compared to just 13.9 percent of women. Gender differences in cigarette smoking were far narrower. Some 14.1 percent of male adults smoked cigarettes, compared to 11 percent of adult women.
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.
For Academic Women Who Marry, Name Change Can Be Problematic
Today in the United States, about 80 percent of all women who get married take their husband’s last name. But in the academic world, the practice is far less common. A 2019 survey found that 57 percent of women with a Ph.D. changed their name when they married.
Study Examines Gender Inequalities in Academic Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The researchers write that “improving representation in innovation would shift the very nature of knowledge production, leading to the development of inventions aimed at improving the lives of people who have been traditionally marginalized or harmed by inventions.”
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.
Gender Bias Still Persists in Industries Where Women Make Up Significant Majority of Workers
The study examined the experiences of women in four industries in which women are a majority of all workers: law, higher education, faith-based nonprofits, and health care. The results showed that women continue to face bias in all four fields, but women were the least likely to face bias in higher education.
Study Examines Gender Differences in Components That Contribute to Wisdom
Men had higher scores on emotional regulation and decisiveness, while women had higher scores on insight, tolerance of divergent values, pro-social behaviors, and social advising. The authors found “no significant difference in the overall wisdom score, indicating that the relative strengths and weaknesses of each group balanced out in the overall score.”
Study Finds Gender Differences in Approvals for U.S. Citizenship
A new study led by Emily Ryo, a professor of law and sociology at the University of Southern California, finds that there are gender gaps in who is approved for citizenship during the naturalization process.
For Women, Mentioning Gender Identify in Correspondence Can Increase Chances of Obtaining Career Help
In a new study, researchers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania found that people are significantly more likely to offer career help to women when help seekers mention their gender identity in requests. “We know, both from research and personal experience, how invaluable it can be to get a helping hand when […]
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States
In 2021, there were 45,442,000 women over the age of 25 in the United States who had earned at least a bachelor’s degree. They made up 39 percent of the total adult population of women in the United States. For men, 36.6 percent of all adults over the age of 25 had obtained at least a bachelor’s degree.
A Different Perspective on the Gender Gap in Academic Publishing During the Pandemic
Several studies have shown that the gender gap in academic publishing increased in the initial phase of the worldwide pandemic. But a new study by researchers at Kozminski University in Poland finds that the impact of the pandemic on the gender gap in publication rates may be overblown.
How the Pandemic Impacted the Frequency and Severity of Domestic Violence
A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan found that in the early months of the pandemic, the overall prevalence of domestic violence didn’t increase, but survivors of intimate partner violence experienced new, more frequent, or more severe violence in that period.
How Age, Race, and Early-Life Disadvantage Among College-Educated Mothers Impacts Birth Weights
According to a new study by researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Black infants experience disproportionately high risks of low birth weight compared with non-Hispanic White infants, particularly among mothers with high educational attainment and greater socioeconomic advantage.
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.
University of Florida Study Finds Many Pregnant Women Take Drugs That May Harm Their Unborn Children
In a study of more than 3 million pregnancies, University of Florida researchers found 1 in 16 women were exposed to harmful teratogenic drugs — medications that can cause pregnancy loss, birth defects, and other health problems for the unborn child.
Study Examines How Sexual Orientation Impacts Academic Success
The study, authored by Joel Mittleman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, found that gay men outperform their straight peers, both men and women. But lesbian women do not perform as well academically as heterosexual women.
How the Pandemic Impacted the Academic Production of Women Physicians
At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, when many Americans transitioned to working at home, the scholarly production of academic articles increased in most fields. But a new study led by researchers at Northwestern University finds that among physicians, men’s scholarly productivity increased while women physicians submitted fewer works to publishers.
Study Finds That Mothers Are Less Likely Than Fathers to Want to Get Their Children Vaccinated
Researchers conducted a survey of Medicaid patients in Florida. They found that the youngest Black and White mothers (those ages 30 and under) were least likely to intend to vaccinate their child. Older fathers were the most likely to favor vaccination.
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.
In Same-Gender Households Men Earn More Women and Men Earn More Than Opposite-Gendered Households
A new study from the Brookings Institution examines the economic status of same-gender, married and unmarried households in the United States. A surprise in their findings, according to the authors, is that women in a same-gender coupled family – regardless of marital status — have similar family income to opposite-gender couples.
Study Finds Gender Bias My Be Impacting Decisions in Student Loan Bankruptcy Cases
Researchers examined nearly 900 student loan discharge decisions handled in U.S. bankruptcy courts between 1985 to 2020. They found that men were 93 percent more likely to have their loans discharged when disclosing a medical condition, as compared to women who disclosed medical conditions.
Women Medical Students Found to Be Less Assertive in Class Than Their Male Peers
Researchers found that women both asked and answered fewer questions than men in large in-person classes. They also found that deferential language was more common in questions asked by women than in questions asked by men in large classes. The authors believe that this behavior may lead to gender biases in grading that disadvantage female students and trainees.
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.
