The Ritual That Preserves The World: Gender & It's Coils
Posted October 24, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/the-ritual-that-preserves-the-world-gender-its-coils/Heather Draper, whose column appears in The San Antonio Express-News, (The article is linked at the highlighted newspaper name.) wrote recently about a talk given by Alma L. Lopez, the first Latina to be elected chief justice of an appellate court in the United States. Ms. Lopez spoke at the San Antonio YWCA's Women of Influence awards. The substance of the speech was about gender differentials in pay and opportunity for women in business. What struck Ms. Draper was the references Ms. Lopez made to a recently published study by Kristen Schilt, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and Matthew Wiswall, an economist at NYU, Before and After: Gender Transitions, Human Capital, and Workplace Experiences.
The study found that among 64 subjects, women and men both before and after transition, men made an average of +1.5% more pay than they had while being designated female and that women averaged -32% wages and salary than they had while designated male.
