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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Knockout-49Liteweight",sans-serif;color:#5CDC00">PHD SURVEY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"GlosaMath-Medium",serif;color:black">Gender pay gap exposed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">Male researchers who gained PhDs in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">2017, with jobs lined up, expect to earn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">median annual salaries of U$S88,000,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">compared with $70,000 for women,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">the US National Science Foundation’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">annual census has found. Almost<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">50,000 recipients of research-related PhDs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">from 428 institutions, responded to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">Doctorate Recipients from US Universities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">survey, whose results were published<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">in December. One reason for the gap is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">the larger proportion of men in higherpaying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">fields such as mathematics and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">computer science, the two highest-paying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">scientific fields. Men accounted for about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">75% of doctoral degrees in those fields (a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">proportion that has barely changed since<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">2007), and expected to earn $113,000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">compared with $99,000 for women. And<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">about 75% of recipients in engineering are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">male, down slightly from 79% in 2007. In<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">the lower-paid fields of psychology and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">social sciences, women outnumbered men<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">by 59% to 41%. Lower-paying disciplines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">showed more equity: in social sciences, for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">example, men expected to earn $66,000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">compared with $62,000 for women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">Men didn’t always fare better: women in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">chemistry expected to earn $85,000 —<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MinionPro-Regular",serif;color:black">$5,000 more than their male counterparts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Ora A. Weisz, PhD | Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Clinical and Translational Science</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Renal-Electrolyte Division | 978.1 Scaife Hall | 3550 Terrace St. | Pittsburgh PA 15261</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Tel: 412-383-8891 | Email:
<a href="mailto:weisz@pitt.edu"><span style="color:blue">weisz@pitt.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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