Volume 38, Number 1 (Winter) 2003
Ginther, Donna K., and Kathy J. Hayes. 2003. "Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities 1977-95." Journal of Human Resources 38(1):34-73.
This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Over time, gender salary differences can largely be explained by academic rank. Substantial gender differences in promotion to tenure exist after controlling for productivity and demographic characteristics. However, we observe a slight decline in the gender promotion gap for the most recent cohort evaluated. On the basis of this evidence, we conclude that gender discrimination for academics in the humanities tends to operate through differences in promotion, which in turn affects wages.
Donna K. Ginther is an associate professor of economics at the University of Kansas. Kathy J. Hayes is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. The authors thank the National Science Foundation for granting a site license to use the data and Kelly Kang of the NSF for providing technical documentation. Robert Pollak, Barton Hamilton, Kenneth Troske, Peter Mueser, John Pencavel, Paula Stephan, Finis Welch, and seminar participants at the Southern Economic Association Meetings. the University of Missouri-Columbia, the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, the NBER Higher Education Conference, and the EALE/SOLE World Conference provided valuable comments on the paper. Sherry Okun assisted with constructing the tables in this paper. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or the Federal Reserve System. The authors take responsibility for any errors. The data used in this article can be obtained provided that requestors first obtain a site license from the National Science Foundation. The data may then be obtained beginning in August 2003 through July 2006. Donna Ginther. Department of Economics, University of Kansas. 1300 Sunnyside Drive. Lawrence. KS 66045-7585.
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