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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.
Study Examines Health Records From the Past to See What Might Happen If Abortion Is Prohibited in Some States
With the U.S. Supreme Court allowing states to place restrictions on abortions and the prospect that the court may overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion altogether, researchers at Georgia State University in Atlanta have produced a study that examined health records from the 1960 and 1970s. They found that state-level legalization of […]
Study Led by Yale University Scholars Examines If Women Are Less Psychologically Resilient Than Men
Researchers surveyed more than 2,500 health care providers at the hospital during the first wave of COVID-19 infections in 2020. Although women were more likely than men to report symptoms of psychological distress, this difference was no longer significant after taking into account preexisting and concurrent stressors, which are more often experienced by women.
New Research Finds Persisting Gender Bias in Linguistics Textbooks
Their study looked at six textbooks studying the scientific structure of language, published between 2005-2017. The authors found that male protagonists occurred almost twice as often as females in the textbooks and appeared in more prominent roles. Men were more likely to be portrayed as having stable occupations whereas women were more likely to exhibit emotions.
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.
Gender Differences in the Age of Doctoral Degree Recipients in the United States
On average, women who earned doctorates in 2020 were 31.8 years old when they received their doctoral degrees. For men, the average age was 31.3. On average, women who earned doctorates in 2020 took 9.2 years after they graduated from college to earn their degree. For men, it took an average of 8.3 years.
Ohio State University Study Finds Women Sports Fans Rarely Attend Sporting Events
A new study by researchers at Ohio State University finds that American women who identify as passionate sports fans don’t watch or attend athletic events much more frequently than women who say they aren’t as interested in sports. “Sport is commonly assumed to be a masculine activity,” explains Frances Sutton a doctoral student in anthropology […]
Study Finds a Gender Gap in Work Interruptions for Employees Working at Home Due to the Pandemic
The researchers found that even when both partners worked from home, the woman reported more demands related to childcare and household tasks. Women reported more interruptions than men did prior to the pandemic, but this difference has only increased. Women also noted more frequent interruptions from co-workers and supervisors while working from home than did men.
Study Finds the Pandemic Placed Considerable Stress on Mothers Who Worked in Academia
Although there have been notable efforts to improve support for women across academia, the results of the present study emphasized that persistent systemic inequities remain. This study further highlights that these gaps grew exponentially for women in academia, especially mothers, due to the impact of the pandemic on home and family.
Study Finds Women Patients Were More Likely to Die After Surgery If Their Surgeon Was a Man
Researchers analyzed data on 1,320,108 patients who had surgeries between 2007 and 2019. In more than half of these cases, the sex of the surgeon was different than the sex of the patient. The vast majority of these cases were male surgeons operating on women patients. The results showed that women who had male surgeons were more likely to die, experience readmission, or complication within 30-days following surgery than women who had a woman surgeon.
In 2020 There Were Large Gender Disparities in the Funding of Doctoral Education
Nearly 30 percent of all women who earned doctorates in 2020 took out loans to finance their doctoral studies. For men, 19.8 percent took out loans. The average graduate education debt for women was $30,966. Men who earned doctorates in 2020 had an average graduate student debt of $21,608.
Great Progress Has Been Made But Males Are Still More Likely to Be the Lead Characters in Children’s Books
In a study of children’s books over the past 60 years by scholars at Emory University in Atlanta and Princeton University in New Jersey, male protagonists outnumber female protagonists by a margin of 3 to 1. However, in the last decade, males outnumber females by just 1.2 to 1.
Stanford University Study Finds Women Academics Often Held Back Due to The Nature of Their Research
Analyzing nearly 1 million doctoral dissertations from U.S. universities over a recent 40-year period, a teams of researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education found that scholars who wrote about topics associated with women, or used methodologies associated with women, were less likely to go on to get senior faculty positions than those who did not.
The Gender Gap in Employment and Salary for Students Who Earned Doctorates in 2020
For 2020 doctoral recipients who had a job offer, 47.1 percent of women had accepted positions in the academic arena. For men who had job offers, only 33 percent were heading to academia. In the field of education, the median salary for men was still $5,000 higher than the median salary for women.
Women Are a Greater Percentage of All Work-Related Fatalities Than Was the Case Five Years Ago
While women make up a low percentage of all work-related fatalities due to injuries, the number of deaths of women had been increasing until the pandemic struck. In 2016, 387 women died as a result of work-related injuries, the same number as in 2020. For men, the number of work-related fatalities dropped from 4,803 in 2016 to 4,377 in 2020.
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.
Study Suggests That Stress Endured by Pregnant Women May Alter the Genes of Their Children and Grandchildren
Veena Prahlad, an associate professor of biology at the University of Iowa, conducted research on roundworms and found that a mother roundworm release serotonin when she senses danger. The serotonin travels from her central nervous system to warn her unfertilized eggs, where the warning is stored, so to speak, and then passed to offspring after conception.
The Pandemic Produced Some Positive Effects for Teenage Girls, Study Finds
A study led by Jennifer Silk, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, found that in the early days of the pandemic quality time with family was linked to better mental-health days, and girls were more likely to spend time doing healthy and creative activities that school and extracurriculars would normally leave no time for. They also were able to get more sleep.
The Number of U.S. Women Earning Doctorates Dropped for the Third Year in a Row
In 2020, women earned 69.1 percent of all doctoral degrees awarded in education and 65.7 percent of all doctorates in the health sciences. In contrast, women earned only a third of the doctorates in the physical sciences. In engineering, women earned 24.8 percent of the doctorates awarded in 2020. In mathematics and computer science, women earned just under a quarter of all doctorates awarded in 2020.
New Study Examines Impact of Industrial Robots on the Male and Female Workforces
In 741 U.S. regions that were more exposed to industrial robots, the research team found a statistical decline in men’s wages and workforce participation. They also saw a decline in marriage stability, marriage fertility, and the earning power of men. Men’s decreased income translated into a reduction in the gender income gap by 4.2 percent and the workforce-participation gender gap by 2.1 percent.
Study Finds High Rates of Cervical Cancer in Lower-Income New York City Neighborhoods
Cervical cancer is highly preventable with vaccination and regular screening. But a new study finds that the rate of cervical cancer among women living in New York City neighborhoods with the lowest socioeconomic indices is nearly two times higher than the rate among New Yorkers who live in the city’s neighborhoods with the highest socioeconomic indices.
Lower Retention Rates for Men Are a Significant Contributing Factor to the Higher Education Gender Gap
New data from the Census Bureau shows that women were 55 percent of all students entering college in the fall of 2020. In October 2020, there were 1,058,000 men enrolled in the fourth year of higher education compared to 1,467,000 women. Thus women were 58 percent of all students in their fourth year of college.
Oregon State University Research Finds Water Births Are Just as Safe As Traditional Births
Water birth is offered in some hospitals in the U.S. but is much rarer here than in most developed countries around the world. Only 1.5 percent of people in the U.S. give birth outside of a hospital, and about half of these elect to have a water birth. The results showed that water births were associated with lower risks for several maternal outcomes, including 64 fewer hemorrhages per 10,000 births, and 28 fewer hospitalizations in the first six weeks.
Rutgers University Study Finds That Postpartem Depression Can Have Lingering Effects for Up to 15 Years
Researchers looked at 4,362 U.S. women who delivered babies between 1998 and 2000 and were followed until 2017. They found that maternal depression during the first year had a strong and sustained association with economic hardship — such as meeting medical costs, experience of utility shut-offs, inability to pay bills, and food and housing insecurity — up to 15 years later.
Gender Differences in Educational Attainment Vary by Sexual Orientation
A new study by a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame finds that roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor’s degree, while the overall national number for all adults in the U.S. is 36 percent. Lesbian women also significantly surpass most other groups of American adults, but their degree attainment is significantly less than gay men. And for younger women, lesbians’ degree attainments trailed those of straight women.
Study Finds a Sharp Rise in Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Women
A new study, co-led by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University, has captured the magnitude and issues related to cannabis use disorders during pregnancy. The study found that the proportion of hospitalized pregnant patients identified with cannabis use disorder – defined as cannabis use with clinically significant impairment or distress – rose 150 percent from 2010 to 2018.
Survey Finds the Pandemic Changed Single People’s Attitudes About Relationships
A new survey by Singles in America identifies changing attitudes on what is important to unmarried men and women when they are seeking a partner. This year, for the first time ever in the survey’s history, there was a drop in singles’ preference for physical attractiveness. Only 78 percent of survey respondents said they wanted a partner who was physically attractive compared to 90 percent in the previous survey.
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.
University of Toronto Study Finds Significant Gender Bias in Referrals to Surgeons
The study of more than 40 million referrals to 5,660 surgeons from 1997 to 2016, found that male surgeons in Ontario made up 77.5 percent of all surgeons but received 79 percent of referrals from female physicians and 87 percent of referrals from male physicians. And no progress was indicated in the two decades of research data.
The Pandemic Restricted the Number of U.S. Students Studying Abroad, But the Gender Gap Remained Huge
Of the 162.333 American students who studied abroad in the 2019-2020 academic year, 67.4 percent were women. This is up slightly from the previous academic year and is the highest percentage of women among the study abroad pool in this century.
Diane Recinos Is the New Leader of Berkeley College With Campuses in New York and New Jersey
Dr. Recinos has been an administrator at the college for nearly three decades. When Dr. Recinos began her career at Berkeley College in 1992 she was the director of financial aid for the Woodbridge, New Jersey, campus. She later took on expanded roles in financial aid, technology. and analytics. Most recently, she has been serving as senior vice president for student success.
Study Finds Academic and Professional Women Are Less Likely to Ask for Extensions to Complete Tasks
A new study led by Ashley V. Whillans, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business Schools, finds that in professional and academic settings women avoid asking for more time to complete work tasks, even when deadlines are explicitly adjustable, undermining their well-being and task performance.
