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Gender and Race in Economic Outcomes

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PDT)

Manchester Grand Hyatt, Old Town A
Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics & International Association for Feminist Economics
  • Chair: Elissa Braunstein, Colorado State University

Did the Unique Team Mentoring of CCOFFE Work? Evidence from 20 Years Later

Robin Bartlett
,
Denison University
Zarrina Juraqulova
,
Denison University
Andrea Ziegert
,
Denison University

Abstract

"In 1998 a group of 40 untenured female economists gathered for the first innovative team mentoring workshop, CCOFFE: Creating Career Opportunities for Female Economists. Over the three day NSF sponsored workshop, eight senior female economists advised teams of five junior economists on networking, publishing, grant writing, and work life balance. In order to assess the impact of this unique intervention on this group of women, a control group of 'Matched Pairs,' untenured male and female economists at similar point in their careers were also followed. One year after the intervention, Bartlett et al (1999) found that CCOFFE participants had significantly more articles accepted and published in referred journals, wrote more book chapters, and reports, and had significantly larger number of funded grants. However as Bartlett et al (1999) note, 'The test of the pudding is in the tenure process and whether these women have made up enough ground to be disproportionately awarded tenure in the coming years.'

This research assesses the careers of participants and matched pairs 20 years after the original intervention and asks the question, 'Did CCOFFE participants achieve tenure, and full professor at a significantly higher rate than did the original matched pairs? Did it take any longer to earn those ranks? A difference in difference approach is used to study participant data on publications, grants received and career trajectories.

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The Intersection of Gender and Race: African American and Asian American Women in the United States, 1980-2018 and Gendered Racism

Marlene Kim
,
University of Massachusetts-Boston

Abstract

"I use US Census and American Community Survey data from 1980 to the present to compare the earnings penalties African American women and Asian women suffer in the US from their gender, race, and intersection of gender and race. Little research has been performed on the intersection of race and gender, and none has compared racial groups to examine how these may differ.

Domestic Employment in Brazil: Two Decades of Continuity and Change

Cristina Pereira Vieceli
,
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Carlos Vasconcello
,
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Abstract

Domestic employment is a kind of reproductive labour that occupies mainly women of underprivileged classes and races. This characteristic seems to be accentuated in countries with higher levels of social inequality such as those in the Latin-American region. Brazil, is a special case, for the country shows the highest number of domestic employees in the world. Historical formation of domestic wage labour is basically associated with its slavery past and the persistence of uneven racial treatment since the ‘abolition’ at the end of the 19th century. Having this historical context as a background, this paper aims at analysing the characteristics of domestic employment in Brazil in a recent period, lasting from the late XXth century to 2018, from a feminist intersectional perspective. More specifically, we look at continuity and change in domestic employment by focusing on the profile of employees, conditions of work and changes in the legislation regulating domestic employment relations. The analysis lays emphasis on gender and race dimensions.

Understanding the Structural Determinants of Wealth Inequality across Gender and Race

Hanna Szymborska
,
Birmingham City University

Abstract

This paper analyzes patterns of gender and racial wealth inequality in light of financial sector liberalization in the USA since the 1980s. By determining access to different types of wealth and their values, securitization, the subprime lending expansion, and wider liberalization measures generated disparities in household leverage and asset returns, which influenced the capacity to accumulate wealth for different gender and racial groups. Using the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances between 1989-2013, the paper analyzes how access to various assets and family wealth transfers contributed to the gender wealth gap. Homeownership is found to have an alleviating impact on gender wealth inequality, while differences in earnings, access to retirement and insurance assets, and to financial investment assets are associated with increasing wealth disparities. The paper also investigates intersectional inequality, establishing higher wealth disparities across race than gender, and a generally reinforcing race and gender effects for female households of color.
JEL Classifications
  • J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
  • B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches