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Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

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  • Guarino, Cassandra M.

    (University of California, Riverside)

  • Borden, Victor M. H.

    (Indiana University)

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This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure-track faculty at two campuses of a large public, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions. We find evidence in both data sources that women faculty perform significantly more service than men, controlling for rank, race/ethnicity, and field or department. Our analyses suggest that the male-female differential is driven primarily by internal service – i.e., service to the university, campus, or department – rather than external service – i.e., service to the local, national, and international communities.

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  • Guarino, Cassandra M. & Borden, Victor M. H., 2016. "Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?," IZA Discussion Papers 10010, IZA Network @ LISER.
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10010
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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