New Study Examines Gender-based Pay Gaps in Academia: A paper in the new issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly examines gender-based pay gaps among U.S. faculty using two methodologies. The multiple regression and resampling simulation approaches are different, yet they lead to the same conclusion - a gender-based pay gap exists.
The paper's three authors are faculty at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The study focuses on quantitative data gathered from the university's 14 colleges. Dr. Cheryl B. Travis, who is associated with the psychology and women's studies departments, says Tennessee has conducted salary studies for many years. This paper includes a new statistical methodology conceptualized by co-author Dr. Louis J. Gross of the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Mathematics.
'We wanted to do a salary study using his new methodology, resampling, and have a comparable standard multiple regression study to see would they find similar outcomes,' Travis says.
