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Ya Vanca Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Pay inequity controversies cut across all disciplines and fields in higher education (Meara et al., 2020; Toutkoushian & Conley, 2005). Despite efforts to reduce the wage gap, gender wage inequities persist and continue to adversely affect women across various sectors (Katzeff, 2019; Schieder & Gould, 2016). Since passing the Equal Pay Act…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Females, Federal Legislation, Gender Discrimination
Tomasz Zajac; Iga Magda; Marek Bozykowski; Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak; Mikolaj Jasinski – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women's lower earnings have emerged and remain under-researched. Educational choices are among them. We use a rich administrative dataset from Poland, a Central Eastern European country with high tertiary education enrolment and high female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Females
Margaret Marchant; Jocelyn S. Wikle – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This study leverages a policy change in the missionary program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that exogenously influenced the likelihood that a woman took gap time during college to understand how gap time influences women's subsequent choice of major and academic outcomes. If structured gap time shapes educational outcomes,…
Descriptors: Stopouts, College Enrollment, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Ebony McGee; Monica F. Cox; Joyce B. Main; Monica L. Miles; Meseret F. Hailu – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The devaluation of women of Color (WoC) by way of gender discrimination and systemic racism is well documented. For WoC in engineering a chief cause is the observable wage gap. Women who identify as Asian, Black/African American, Latina/Chicana, Indigenous/Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Native Alaskan, and/or multiracial have…
Descriptors: Wages, College Faculty, Engineering Education, Females
Ariane Hegewisch – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2024
Apprenticeships are structured training programs that combine paid on-the-job learning with classroom instruction and provide a pathway to industry-recognized qualifications in in-demand occupations. The apprenticeship route can offer an alternative to traditional college (and college debt), yet traditionally, women have been much less likely to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Sex Fairness, Economics
Pedro J. Hernández – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aims at analyzing the gender gap in salaries observed in Spanish public universities. It focuses on the glass ceiling problem and quantifies its importance in the gender earnings gap. This article shows that most of the gender earnings gap observed among the faculty of the University of Murcia is due to a glass ceiling problem in…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Discrimination, Universities, Gender Issues