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For Women Neurosurgeons, the Gender Pay Gap Is Significant
Women neurosurgeons billed Medicare for $395 851.62 compared to $766 006.80 for men. Women neurosurgeons were reimbursed an average of $69 520.89 compared to $124 324.64 for men. After controlling for volume and experience, women still received $24,885.29 less than men per year.
In Memoriam: Mei-Yau Shih, 1958-2023
A native of Taiwan, Dr. Shih joined the Center for Teaching & Learning at the University of zmsssachusetts Amherst in 1998 to direct the TEACHnology Fellowship. An industrious and insightful proponent of effective teaching, she consulted with hundreds of faculty members on course design.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Three Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as University Deans
Sarah Treul Roberts will serve as interim director and dean of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shirley Hymon-Parker will lead the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University as interim dean and DeNeia Thomas is the new dean of the College of Professional Studies at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Four Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Zengyi Shao at Iowa State University, Bonnielin Swenor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Karen Cook-Bell at Bowie State University in Maryland, and Wendy Berry Mendes at Yale University.
Women Are Vastly Underrepresented in Leadership Roles in Academic Surgery
Men made up 86 percent of department chairs and 68 percent of vice chairs. Men were 87 percent of division chiefs. Women surgical leaders were disproportionately clustered in roles such as vice chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion or vice chair of faculty development.
Two Women Who Have Been Appointed to Provost Positions
Marion Underwood, dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences and distinguished professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University in Indiana, has been appointed provost and executive vice president at Colorado State University, effective January 1. Sandra Hamar is the new provost and vice president for academic affairs at Columbia College in Missouri. She had been serving as dean of the School of Public Service at the college.
Increased Rates of Breastfeeding May Negatively Impact Women’s Economic Prospects
Mothers who chose to breastfeed significantly increased their time spent on child care, leading many to reduce their work hours, reduce their positions to part-time or leave the workforce entirely. And that may cause substantially lower wages and earnings down the line.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
In Memoriam: Sonia Elaine Waters, 1972-2023
Sonia Elaine Waters, an associate professor of pastoral theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary, died late last month. He was 51 years old.
New Duties for Seven Women Scholars at Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Four Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Elon University in North Carolina
The women who were appointed to named professorships are Sheila Otieno in religious studies, Kristina Meinking in world languages and cultures, Ann Cahill in philosophy, and Mary Jo Festle in history.
Harvard University’s Claudia Goldin to Receive the Nobel Prize in Economics
Professor Goldin has collected over 200 years of data from the U.S., allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time. She has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same occupation and that it largely arises with the birth of the first child.
McKinsey & Company Report Examines Women’s Progress in the Workplace
Since 2015, the number of women in the C-suite has increased from 17 to 28 percent, and the representation of women at the vice president and senior vice president levels has also improved significantly. But, for every 100 men promoted from entry-level positions to manager, 87 women were promoted.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
In Memoriam: Evelyn Fox Keller, 1936-2023
Dr. Keller joined the MIT faculty in 1992 after teaching at a large number of prestigious institutions. That year, she received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award for her scholarship. The foundation called her “a scholar whose interdisciplinary work raises important questions about the interrelationships among language, gender, and science.”
Seven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments at Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Women in Pediatrics Have Made Substantial Progress in Academic Publishing
From 2001 to 2022, 4,426 original research articles were studied. The results showed an increase in the proportion of women as first authors (23.7%), senior authors (22.8%), and as editorial board members (15.9%) over the 5 one-year time periods studied between 2001 and 2022.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Universities Announce New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Damara Goff Paris was named the John E. King Endowed Professor at Emporia State University in Kansas. Mara Rudman has been appointed the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and Christine Larson has been named as the inaugural holder of the Kemp Endowed Professorship in Honors Mathematics at South Dakota State University.
Women Make Slight Gains in Closing the Income Gap With Men
The median income of households headed by a single woman in the United States in 2022 was $56,030. For households headed by a single man in 2022, the median income figure was $73,630. For single women living alone, the median income in 2022 was $40,200. For single men living alone, the median income was $51,930.
There Is a Significant Disparity in the Number of Unmarried Men and Women in the United States
A new Census Bureau study finds that in 2019 there were 89.8 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women in the United States. The unmarried population includes people age 18 and over who were never married, widowed or divorced, regardless of their sexual orientation.
U.S. News and World Report’s Latest Rankings of the Nation’s Top Women’s Colleges
Wellesley College in Massachusetts was ranked in a tie for fourth overall, behind only Williams College, Amherst College, and the U.S. Naval Academy, and was tied with Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and Pomona College in California. Barnard College in New York City jumped from 22nd place in 2020, to 17th place in 2021, and 18th place in 2022. This year Barnard is in a five-way tie for 11th place.
Women Judges Are Cited Less Often Than Their Male Peers
After analyzing out-of-circuit citations to a sample of more than 2,000 published federal appellate decisions from 2009 to 2016, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of Louisville, the University of Georgia, and Brigham Young University in Utah found that majority opinions written by female judges receive significantly fewer subsequent citations from other courts than those by men.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Eleven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Yale’s Cécile Fromont Received the 2023 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize
Dr. Fromont, a professor of the history of art at Yale. was born and raised in Martinique. Her ancestors came to the Caribbean island from Africa, South Asia, and Burgundy. She joined the Yale faculty in 2018 after teaching for eight years at the University of Chicago. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The four women named to endowed professorships are Patricia Bricker at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, Cynthia Reinhart-King at Rice University in Houston, Sonia Sultan at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and Margot Pollans at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, New York.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States
Overall, there were more than 20 million American women and girls who were living below the poverty level in 2022. In 2022, 12.5 percent of all women and girls in the United States lived in poverty compared to 10.5 percent of men.
