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The Gender Earning Gap Remains Large Even for Those With Similar Education
Even among bachelor’s degree holders in the same field of study, women generally earned significantly less than men in 2022, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data shows that men with a bachelor’s degree or higher earned more than women with the same education in all fields but that the difference in median earnings varied by field of degree.
University Study Finds Women Prison Inmates More Likely Than Men to Be Punished for Minor Infractions
A new study led by Melinda Tasca, an associate professor in the department of criminal justice and security studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, reveals women were 40 percent more likely to receive a defiance infraction and accrue them at a greater rate than males. Defiance acts are the most minor of rule violations and are often verbal in nature, including disrespect, being disruptive, or disobeying an order.
The Persisting Gender Pay Gap in Higher Education
A new study from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) finds that there remains a significant pay gap for women in staff and faculty positions at colleges and universities in the United States.
Study Shows That Girls’ and Women’s Sports Are More Popular Than Most People Realize
In August 2023, 92,003 packed the football stadium on the campus of the University of Nebraska to view a women’s volleyball match. This is generally considered to be the largest crowd to ever watch a women’s sporting event. This is just one sign that women’s sports in the U.S. are becoming increasingly popular.
How Perinatal Depression Impacts the Long-Term Health of Mothers
Women with perinatal depression have a doubled risk of mortality compared to those without, with the risk peaking in the month after diagnosis and persisting for up to 18 years. The risk was highest for the women diagnosed with postpartum depression.
More “Hidden Figures” Discovered at the University of Chicago
Researchers at the University of Chicago have identified more than 100 women who worked at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin in the early 20th century. In an era when few women were able to be professional scientists, these women performed astronomical observations, analyzed data, and published papers.
Survey Finds Surgical Residents Face a Multitude of Obstacles in Order to Breastfeed
In a survey, more than 40 percent of women surgical residents reported a lack of a dedicated lactation room at work. For those who did have a room to pump breast milk, 37 percent did not have an accessible place to store milk.
Study Finds Major Gender Disparities in Coaching Positions at the University of Pennsylvania
For men’s teams, there are 15 head coaches, who made an average of $168,346 in fiscal year 2022. In contrast, the 14 head coaches of women’s teams made an average of $111,613 that same year — amounting to a 41 percent gap in pay between the two.
Gender Differences in Workplace Fatalities
New statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2022, 5,486 American workers died after suffering injuries while working. Women made up 8.1 percent of all workplace fatalities but accounted for 15.3 percent of homicides at work in 2022.
Study Finds Church Congregations Are Largely Unsupportive of Working Women
A new study from Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance finds that working women do not feel supported by their clergy and churches, regardless of whether they’re involved with a more conservative or liberal congregation.
Gender Disparities in Drug Side Effects May Not Be Due to Biology
More than half of Americans routinely take prescription or over-the-counter drugs, but women tend to experience side effects at up to twice the rate of men. The difference historically has been chalked up to biological sex differences, but new research from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab debunks that view.
The Top Women Scientists in the World
The second edition of Research.com ranking of top female scientists in the world is based on data acquired from a wide range of bibliometric sources. This ranking of best female scientists in the world comprises the leading female scientists from all key areas of science.
Study Finds That Alcohol Intoxication Does Not Impact Women’s Ability to Recall a Sexual Assault
Acute alcohol intoxication has a significant impact on criminal proceedings, with up to 80 percent of victims reported to have been alcohol intoxicated when their attack occurred. During trials, victims’ accounts will often be contested if they were intoxicated.
How Women Deal With Potentially Discriminatory Behavior at Work When They Are Not Sure
A new study led by Laura Doering, an associate professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, finds that women often feel emotional distress when they experience a potentially discriminatory incident at work but cannot classify it conclusively.
Young Men Are Largely Responsible for the Overall Drop in College Enrollments
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that college enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. Much of this decline is because of lower enrollments of men at four-year colleges and universities. Today, men represent only 42 percent of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47 percent in 2011.
Gender Differences in Teacher Attrition Rates at K-12 Schools in the United States
In public schools women teachers were more likely than men to move to a different school and were more likely than men to leave the teaching profession. At private schools, the opposite was true.
Do Women Respond Differently Than Men to Performance Critiques?
Using a controlled experiment, Dr. Maria Kogelnik of Yale University found that men are 10 percentage points more likely to continue engaging in difficult tasks when exposed to performance feedback than women who did equally well and received identical feedback. She concluded that men and women may differ in how they interpret critiques.
The Gender Gap at Medical Schools in the United States
In 2023, there were 53,442 women students enrolled at U.S. medical schools. They made up 54.6 percent of all medical school students. In 2019, women made up a majority of all medical school enrollments for the first time.
The Gender Gap in STEM Fields Is Due to Personnel Preferences, Scientists Say
Fewer women pursue careers in physics than biology, and scientists from around the world believe these differences come down to personal preferences, according to a new Rice University study of international scientists. The study’s researchers warn that merely chalking this imbalance up to individual choice may diminish the push for gender equality in the sciences.
The Crisis in Child Care for Working Parents
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, most parents regardless of their kids’ ages, said they didn’t have any type of child care arrangement, including 35 percent of those with children under age 5 and more than half – 54 percent – with children ages 5 to 11.
Examining the Gender Pay Gap for College and University Administrators
A new survey by CUPA-HR finds that among higher education administrators, the representation of women steadily increased from 2002 to 2022, from 43 percent to 51 percent. But during the two-decade span, there was not much progress in pay equity for female administrators.
New Study Finds That Discrimination Against the Mother Can Impact the Brains of Unborn Children
Experiences of discrimination and acculturation are known to have a detrimental effect on a person’s health. For pregnant women, these painful experiences can also affect the brain circuitry of their children, a new study from Yale and Columbia University finds.
Survey Examines the Poor State of Maternal Health in Georgia
According to a statewide survey commissioned by Research!America in partnership with the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University in Atlanta, one in 10 Georgians know of someone who has died during pregnancy, at delivery, or soon after birth, and more than half have experienced or know someone who has experienced complications during pregnancy.
Women Making Progress in Ice Core Science, But a Huge Gender Gap Remains
The gender makeup of co-authors differs substantially for man vs. woman-led studies. Within the past decade, woman-led studies have contained on average 20 percent more women coauthors than man-led studies.
How Artificial Intelligence Reflects Gender Stereotypes
A new study by Access Education, an education technology specialist, uncovered the top 10 professions where artificial intelligence is least likely to represent women in key STEM roles, and the ones where AI is challenging stereotypes.
In the Workplace, Attractiveness May Benefit Men More Than Women
A new study by researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences finds that while attractive women are more likely to obtain better jobs and earn more money than less attractive women, men who are deemed attractive actually benefit more from their good looks than women.
Women Win Far Fewer Academic Prizes Than Men
An analysis of nearly 9,000 awardees and 346 scientific prizes and medals published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour has found that men win eight prizes for every one won by a woman if the award is named after a man. Men win a majority of awards named after women.
Sexual Assault, Bullying, and Harassment on the Basis of Sex in U.S. Schools
In the 2020-21 academic year, there were 2,700 instances of sexual assault in schools including 350 incidents of rape or attempted rape. There were 14,900 students who reported being harassed or bullied on the basis of sex and 20,800 students were disciplined for bullying or harassment on the basis of sex.
Women Are Making Progress in Academic Publishing in STEM But a Gender Gap Persists
In an analysis of 5.8 million authors in journals of 174 scientific fields, the researchers found that men outnumbered women 3.93 times among those authors who started publishing before 1992, but only 1.36 times among those authors who started publishing after 2011.
Maternal Mortality Occurs More Often After Pregnancy and Labor Are Over
A study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia School of Social Work provides insights into the challenges that birthing people face in the year after birth — both medical and social — which could be drivers of postpartum morbidity and mortality.
The Importance of Career Services in Leveling the Playing Field in Competition for Tech Jobs
The data show that men generally use career services more frequently than women and that men get more job offers than women. The data show that for men and women in STEM disciplines, the advantage in terms of job offers reverses. Women in STEM who use career services get more job offers than men in STEM who use career services, leveling the playing field for women in tech.
Why Women May Be Better Negotiators Than Men
A new study by researchers at Duke University, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin finds that women’s “relation-oriented, interpersonal” negotiation style translates into less aggressive first offers but higher chances of getting a deal done.
Having Women in the C-Suite Is Not Enough If They Aren’t Given Appropriate Power
Researchers at the University of Mississippi analyzed more than 100 publicly listed retailers and found a positive association between female executives’ structural power – their influence and control of key organizational resources – and company profitability.
The Lingering Effects from the COVID-19 Pandemic on American Women
Some 18.7 million said they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge nearly every day. About half of all women reported symptoms of depression. Some 18 million women reported they feel depressed nearly every day. More than 24 million women said they had great difficulty meeting basic expenses.
Neighborhood Stressors Produce High Levels of Testosterone in Pregnant Women
The researchers found that women living in neighborhoods with stressors such as vacant lots, derelict buildings, and other signs of disorder had significantly higher levels of testosterone – nearly 40 percent higher by the third trimester of pregnancy – than women living in well-ordered neighborhoods.
