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2018 Abstracts

Gender wage gap at Southern Utah University

Jessica Mancuso, Southern Utah University

Abstract Is there a gender wage gap among faculty at Southern Utah University? We have all heard talks and read articles about the gender pay gap in different nations. We all know that gender pay gap exists and people spend hours and hours talking about it every day on the news, in class, or even among friends. For this reason, I have decided to see if there is a gender pay gap among the professors in my university. This will hopefully open a dialogue among the students and faculty at SUU on gender pay gap; and if the results show that there is a gender pay gap see what explains it or can be done about it. The data that I used for this study comes from the SUU website where the salary, education, and position of faculty members can be found. Holding for years of education, age, position, gender, and department women seem to earn less than men. Given that the results show a difference in wages I will then estimate a bias to try to explain why women earn less than men.