David Cotter on Gender Inequality Trends

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David Cotter, January 9, 2015, in The Academic Minute.

[http://academicminute.org/2015/01/david-cotter-union-college-gender-inequality-trends/]

[In The Academic Minute for January 9, 2015, David Cotter, the Chair of Union College’s Sociology Department, discusses his research on trends in US attitudes towards gender inequality.  From 1977 to 1994, attitudes became more egalitarian.  However, from 1994-2006, this upward trend slowed and, at times, even reversed.  Since 2006, a movement towards egalitarian attitudes resumed, although changes are slower than in the past.  Cotter concludes that “the issue of gender inequality remains complicated.”]

The Academic Minute is a WAMC National Production.

“Promotion and self-promotion”

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“Promotion and self-promotion,” The Economist, August 31, 2013

http://www.economist.com/news/science- and-technology/21584316-women-may-fail- win-chairs-because-they-do-not-cite- themselves-enough-promotion?fsrc=scn/ tw_ec/promotion_and_self_promotion

[This article discusses a suggestion, by Barbara Walter of the University of California, San Diego, that female academicians are less likely than male academicians to cite their own previous publications when they publish. She suggests that this imbalance makes it harder for women to advance professionally.]

“Feminist Anti-MOOC”

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“Feminist Anti-MOOC,” Scott Jaschik, August 19, 2013, Inside Higher Education

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/19/feminist-professors-create-alternative-moocs

[This article reports on a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) on Feminism and Technology. It outlines differences between MOOCs, which present the same material to all participants, and DOCCs, which draw on the insights and expertise of all course participants.]

“Women and Academic Conferences”

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“Women and Academic Conferences,” Dr. Hannah Dugdale, July 30 2013, WAMC Northwest Radio

http://wamc.org/post/dr-hannah-dugdale-university-sheffield-women-and-academic-conferences#stream/0

[This 1-minute podcast reports on a study of why relatively few women academicians appear on programs as invited speakers in science conferences. The researchers determined that as many women as men were invited, but almost twice as many women as men declined the invitations.]

“The Mom Penalty”

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“The Mom Penalty,” Colleen Flaherty, June 6, 2013, Inside Higher Education

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/ 2013/06/06/new-book-gender-family-and- academe-shows-how-kids-affect-careers- higher-education

[This article discusses the book Do Babies Matter: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, by Mary Anne Mason, Nicholas Wolfinger, and Marc Goulden. The authors determined that at every stage of an academic career, from graduate school on up, there has been a “baby penalty” that affects women but not their male colleagues.]