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Thursday, May 23, 2013

No commencement speaker will mention the huge gender college degree gap for the class of 2013 favoring women

Mark J. Perry | May 13, 2013, 12:45 am

The chart above shows the huge college degree gap by gender for the class of 2013 (data here). Based on Department of Education estimates, women will earn a disproportionate share of college degrees at every level of higher education this … read more >

Carpe Diem, Society and Culture

Today is ‘Equal Pay Day’; the next ‘Equal Occupational Fatality Day’ will occur on April 17, 2023

Mark J. Perry | April 9, 2013, 8:31 am

Every year, the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) publicizes its “Equal Pay Day” to bring public attention to the gender pay gap. This year, “Equal Pay Day” occurs today, April 9, and represents how far into 2013 the average … read more >

Society and Culture

Race and gender wage gaps: Discrimination still to blame?

June O'Neill | April 9, 2013, 8:30 am

With Equal Pay Day on April 9 and the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin affirmative action case pending in the US Supreme Court, gender- and race-based discrimination continues to simmer in public discourse. The debates over competing views … read more >

Carpe Diem

Straight talk about the wage gap

Mark J. Perry | April 4, 2013, 10:20 pm

Independent Women’s Forum, in a continued effort to set the record straight about the real reason for the statistical difference between men and women’s earnings, produced the informative video above — “Straight Talk About the Wage Gap.” The video explains … read more >

Society and Culture

New PBS documentary illustrates the need for an inclusive brand of feminism

Caroline Kitchens | March 5, 2013, 3:26 pm

Last week, PBS premiered Makers: Women Who Make America, its three-hour documentary on the evolution of American women in the social and political landscape over the last 50 years. Billed as a comprehensive history of the women’s movement, Makers is … read more >

Carpe Diem

Grade disparities favoring girls start in kindergarten, and they have profound, long-term effects that can last a lifetime

Mark J. Perry | February 3, 2013, 10:31 am

AEI’s Christina Hoff Sommers writes in today’s New York Times (“The Boys at the Back“) about an important new academic study (“Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School” in the new issue … read more >

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Staggering college degree gap favoring women, who have earned 9 million more college degrees than men since 1982

Mark J. Perry | January 29, 2013, 5:04 pm

According to the Department of Education, more women than men have graduated from US colleges with bachelor’s degrees in every year since 1982, and the same is true for all college degrees (associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees). For the class … read more >

Carpe Diem

Only when women are overrepresented on every educational metric will we have reached the goal of ‘full gender equity’?

Mark J. Perry | January 20, 2013, 7:45 pm

In a “Data Snapshot” published last June, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education “highlights several differences in educational outcomes between males and females from prekindergarten,” including these: 1. 57% of students in postsecondary education are women. … read more >

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Economics

Negotiation and the gender pay gap

Sita Slavov | November 9, 2012, 2:50 pm

We’ve all heard the statistic that women get paid only 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. Those who cite this figure typically use it as evidence that employers discriminate against women – why else would women get paid … read more >

Debate moderator Candy Crowley speaks to the audience before the start of the second U.S. presidential campaign debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012. REUTERS/Win McNamee/Pool

Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

Candy Crowley’s other gaffe

Andrew Biggs | October 18, 2012, 5:09 pm

But Crowley also tilted the scales in Obama’s favor in a more subtle way: by using her position as moderator to choose which of the many questions submitted by the debate audience would be aired. read more >