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6-1 Progress Check Amber Powers SCS-200 Applied Social Sciences Dr. Mark Meis 18 February 2024

6-1 Progress Check I. Provide a brief overview identifying how the social sciences previously examined your selected issue. Include which social science disciplines have previously been used to research or explain your issue. Gender-based discrimination in academia has been studied by sociologists who have looked at how institutionalized policies and gender bias in academia have impacted the academic career life course of women compared to their male peers as well as the stagnant percentages of representation in academia of women in relation to the number of doctorate degrees being conferred on women (Winslow & Davis, 2016; Hargens & Long, 2002). Other studies have focused on the attrition rates of women in academia and the driving factors behind them (Spoon et al, 2023). II. Explain how the issue impacts the audience. In other words, how is the issue relevant to members of the audience? Why should the audience care about the response to your question or the outcome of your investigation? Support your response with specific examples from your research investigation. This issue of gender-based discrimination in academia impacts every person who is involved in academia. Whether by harming the women pursuing this career path through different and often harsher professional standards and biased policies that favor their male peers, differences in salary, and lack of representation on decision-making committees, or by benefitting the men in academia who are not held to as stringent of standards as their female peers, receive higher salaries, and are given more opportunities for their careers to progress with more representation on decision-making committees and administrative roles (Winslow & Davis, 2016). As faculty members, this impacts every person in my audience, just in different ways. If it

doesn’t impact them negatively, it is likely negatively impacting their female coworkers, friends, and even other women they are close to who may pursue this career path one day. III. Describe the evidence you have to support your conclusions about the impact of the issue on you personally and on your audience. Support your response with specific examples from your research investigation. By looking at the demographic trends of university faculty members, it becomes clear that while there has been a large shift in the last 50 years, there is still a long way to go before we see true equity among faculty members (U.S. Department of Education, 2023). Another marker of these biased policies can be found in the attrition rates of faculty members based on gender, which shows that women are leaving academia at much higher rates than their male peers (Spoon et al, 2023). A final marker for the difference in career trajectory between men and women in academia can be found by studying the career inertia differences, or where different groups tend to stall out in the hierarchy of academia where the higher up the hierarchy you go the less female representation you will find (Hargens & Long, 2002). These findings help to drive home the difference this gender bias has on the career trajectory for men versus women in academia and help to illustrate the ways that this gender-based discrimination impacts my audience and I in different ways. IV. Explain why this issue is important to you personally. In other words, why did you select this issue to investigate? As someone who was assigned female at birth, this issue directly impacts my future career plans in academia. Understanding the current issues facing anyone who is not male in academia will help me to be aware of the kinds of discrimination I may face. This was a major

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