Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Women Atop Their Fields Dissect the Scientific Life
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
The Mommy Track Divides
"This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for high-skill women, but we find the opposite. Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after, but not before, they have children, while there is little change for low-skill women. It appears that the lifetime costs of childbearing, especially early childbearing, are particularly high for skilled women. These differential costs of childbearing may account for the far greater tendency of high-skill women to delay or avoid childbearing altogether."
See http://www.columbia.edu/~etw2108/workingpapers/Ellwood(WP)2009.pdf
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wall Street Journal: A Blueprint for Change
See: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/women-04112011.html. Accessed: 2011-04-13. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5xuiQjovj)
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There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
See: http://www.webcitation.org/5xuhEYYHm
I believe that Ms. Lukas refers to a Reach Advisors' study reported by the AFP news service.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Penn State Faculty Salaries, 2010-2011
The Senate Committee on Faculty Benefits presented its analysis of faculty salaries for 2010-11. Salaries for professors and associate professors at Penn State rank third among the Big Ten public institutions, whereas assistant professors rank seventh. Detailed information is available at http://www.senate.psu.edu/agenda/2010-2011/mar2011/appl.pdf. The report cautioned that readers recognize the limitations of the data because direct comparisons can be difficult as organizations differ in structure.
Penn State Faculty Tenure Flow Rates
The annual report on faculty tenure-flow rates stated that for the last 14 entering cohorts -- 1990-2003 -- 58 percent achieved tenure by the end of their seventh year. Tenure rates have been slightly lower for female and minority faculty. For more detailed information and perspectives, see http://www.senate.psu.edu/agenda/2010-2011/mar2011/appk.pdf.
Friday, February 18, 2011
In Part-Time Jobs, Women Out-Earn Men
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2009.“ Data refer to the sole or principal job of full- and part-time workers, for wage and salary workers.
United States of Wage Gaps
The gap between men’s and women’s full-time earnings narrowed slightly in 2009, according to new data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
For full-time, year-round workers, median earnings for women were 78.2 percent of men’s median earnings, or $35,549 compared with $45,485. In 2008, the ratio of women’s to men’s median earnings was 77.2 percent.
Women's earnings and employment by industry, 2009
Women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median weekly earnings of $657 in 2009. This represented 80 percent of men's median weekly earnings ($819).
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Evan Pugh Professors
For more information on this, check out the PSU site:
http://www.research.psu.edu/about/faculty-staff-resources/faculty-honors-1/evan-pugh-professors