“In data new to the Do Babies Matter? project, controlling for various differences between respondents in the NSF’s study, a woman’s income incrementally decreases 1 percent for each child she has (men’s income is unaffected). Over many years and several children, the cumulative impact is significant; on average, women retire around the same age and for the same reasons as men (the only career transition that isn’t “gendered”), but at a salary that is 29 percent lower, according to one data set. Additionally, the benefits of marriage generally observed by social scientists are skewed for women: While married men in academe enjoy a 3 percent income bump from their unmarried counterparts, women see a 1 percent bump. (In two-professor couples, women are also more likely to defer to their male partner in job decisions – what the authors call the “two-body problem.”)”
- New book on gender, family and academe shows how kids affect careers in higher education | Inside Higher Ed
- New book on gender, family and academe shows how kids affect careers in higher education | Inside Higher Ed