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Posted on: November 22, 2013
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Posted By: Laura Hoopes

The Scientist on Sequester and Salaries

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Dear friends of women in science,

In the November, 2013 issue of The Scientist, I saw two items of news I regret. The first, which we've noted in passing for several months, is the terrible effect of the sequester on science funding. In the "Speaking of Science" feature, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, was quoted as follows, "How many potential future Nobel Prize winners are struggling to find research support today or have been sent home on furlough? How many of them are wondering if they should do something else--or move to another country?." This indiscriminate cutting of budgets has really chilled what was an outstanding period of scientific progress, and of course, also our efforts to attract a more diverse workforce to science.
The second regrettable item was the salary survey that The Scientist conducts annually. It is self-reported, for those of you who are more purist in your demands of data sources. But I suspect it captures a realistic snapshot of wages in science, based on my anecdotal explorations. Again this year, gender is a big determinant of salary. To quote a few categories, for male professors, salary average reported was $158,715. while for female professors it was $133,275. For those who think the trend will correct itself over time, consider the assistant professors: male average was $88,265 but female average was $78,253. And reaching even farther down the pipeline, male graduate students received an average of $28,066 while female graduate students reported an average of $27,869.
The only category where women made more on average was lab technician, with females reporting $40,496 while men reported $38,410. My cynical side might wish they'd also reported the average years in the position for both men and women. Even in this category. I suspect women stay in the job years longer and thus if one corrected for that, the men might win even here.
What are you seeing out there in the real world? Are people leaving science for lack of funds or for funding imbalance favoring men or both?
best,
Laura
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From:  Genuine Dock |  May 31, 2018
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Hi Marian,
I hope you're right about the sequester. I fear though that this Congress is only able to do nothing, and they set it up so doing nothing will cut (hack) back money to everything indiscriminately so new science and new scientists are definitely taking a hit.
best,
Laura

From:  Laura Hoopes |  November 27, 2013
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Laura

To me, sequestration is a short term problem. More appalling is the salary differential.I do not understand why this persists and why our elected officials refuse to pass a stronger equal pay act.

The problem is not limited to academia, not at all.

Marian

From:  Marian for Math |  November 23, 2013
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Hi Susan,

I was pretty sure from things you'd said in passing that the sequester was bad news for you and your place, but I didn't realize how bad. So sorry to hear you are personally impacted and your students are turning away in droves. So sad, when things had looked so much more promising recently. Time to start pushing the $#&*! boulder up that hill again, I guess, if ever we get a functional Congress in place.

best,
Laura

From:  Laura Hoopes |  November 22, 2013
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Hi Rhiannon, Sorry to hear it's so hard. I thought it probably was, but in some ways being in a liberal arts college is one step removed. We never had the big grants. But it's clearly having a terrible effect on science-writ-large .

Laura

From:  Laura Hoopes |  November 22, 2013
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Of COURSE the sequester etc is having an effect. For example, I've lost a grant, and took at 25% pay cut (my summer salary) to try to keep my lab running, but we have to downsize staff nonetheless. The majority of my students leave academe because they frankly don't want my job. They didn't find it attractive before the sequester (in part because of the women issues) and they find it vastly less attractive now. The politicians are giving a good example of how to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. once it's gone, it won't be back.

From:  Susan  Forsburg |  November 22, 2013
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Laura--
You have put your finger on a couple of dire problems this time. All of my postdocs are thinking of either leaving science or moving to Singapore or Germany. I am considering a possible opportunity in England myself. What is Congress thinking/ (Or as one of my colleagues says, Congress? Thinking?)
RME

From:  Rihannon Evans |  November 22, 2013
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