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A recent study of the tech industry conducted by New View Strategies found that 1 in 3 women experiences gender bias and 43% believe there is a gender pay gap at their company. These issues are ...
The analysis of The Internet Movie Database (IMDb, 2005 data dump) shows how wide the gender gap is in the film industry, especially for the most prestigious types of jobs. There are nearly twice as many actors as actresses in IMDb. Prestigious jobs such as composer, cinematographer, director are respectively 88%, 76%, and 86% male-dominated. [28]
As the field evolved, so too did the demographics, and the gender gap shifted from female dominated to male dominated. The believed need for more diversity and an equal gender gap has led to public policy debates regarding gender equality. Many organizations have sought to create initiatives to bring more women into the field of computing.
In “As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops,” Miller summarized a 2009 longitudinal study by sociologists Asaf Levanon, Paula England, and Paul Allison demonstrating a consistent twentieth-century trend wherein US occupations with a higher percentage of women offered lower median hourly wages than comparable fields that ...
While this statistic, reported by the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, has significantly improved since the early 1980s, when just 5.8% of engineers were female, A Female Engineer Explains ...
The trend’s name comes from the idea that women have historically been excluded from jobs in male-dominated fields. While not all the videos use the same sound, most use a sped-up version of ...
In a study conducted in 1990, it was found that women "lose authority... if they employ feminine styles of leadership in male-dominated roles." [11] A meta-analysis conducted later yielded similar results in which men and women are both perceived as more effective leaders in stereotypical roles and both are found ineffective in non-traditional ...
In today's column, we chat with Dr. Roshawnna Novellus, founder and CEO of EnrichHER, a financial technology platform.