updated 10 January 2008 Advancing Women: Annotated Bibliography Virginia Valian Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity Data on women and men in academia Summary data and benchmarks Tutorial 1 - The Data on Sex Disparities in Rank and Salary from Valian's Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers. www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial Sex disparities in advancement and income (Valian, 2003), www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity Figures from 2001 for academic scientists and engineers show slight disparities in tenure and tenure-track positions, as well as rank, even for people less than 10 years post-PhD. Median annual salaries in academia are lower for women than men beginning 6 years post-PhD. Examples of Hunter College benchmarks for 2006-2007 at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ir/GEP/gep0607.html www.nsf.gov Preparing figures to represent gender equity benchmark data http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/benchmark/Preparing_figu res.pdf How to create bubble graphs, time-in-rank box plots, and flux charts. Long, J. S. (Ed.). (2001). From scarcity to visibility: Gender differences in the careers of doctoral scientists and engineers. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press. Excellent in-depth review of sex differences in salary, rank, and tenure among men and women in the sciences and engineering, using NSF synthetic cohort data. Presentation of both overall analyses and analyses that control for time since degree, rank, specialty, type of institution, and familial status. Among the notable findings: there is a cost to a woman of being a woman, net other variables; the heaviest cost for women with children is movement from full- time to part-time work; women who remain full-time differ from their female peers without