Journal Article

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

Borden, Victor M. H., Guarino, Cassandra M.

2017

Overview

This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions as well as 2012 data from an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure–track faculty at two campuses of a large public, Midwestern University. We find evidence in both data sources that, on average, 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 more by internal service—i.e., service to the university, campus, or department—than external service—i.e., service to the local, national, and international communities—although significant heterogeneity exists across field and discipline in the way gender differentials play out.

• Publisher: Springer,Springer Netherlands,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Campuses / College Faculty / College Science / Committees / Department Heads / Departments / Education / Ethnic Groups / Faculty College Relationship / Faculty Recruitment / Faculty Workload / Females / Gender Differences / Governance / Higher Education / Human Capital / Males / National Surveys / Nontenured Faculty / Public Colleges / Racial Differences / Research Universities / State Surveys / Supervision / Teacher Promotion / Teacher Responsibility / Teacher Surveys / Tenure / Time / Women Faculty / Workloads