Inequity in the Human Experience

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VSU University Center, Magnolia Room 2

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Event

Start Date

11-3-2023 10:00 AM

End Date

11-3-2023 11:30 AM

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Inequity in the Human Experience (Jodie Boisvert, Session Chair)

  • Tanisha Goldsboro. (Valdosta State University) Gaps in Women’s Leadership and Pay Across 26 University System of Georgia Institutions.
    Nationally, women make up about 60% of college students. Does leadership of University System of Georgia (USG) institutions reflect the same gender distribution? And, are there gender pay gaps across universities in Georgia? This study was conducted using entirely publicly available data. We collected name, title, and salary data from openGA.gov for the year 2020 and combined this with a gender variable we created by inferring gender based on first and middle names, and referring to faculty biographies for gender pronouns. The findings that in the Georgia university system, there are 7 female presidents out of 26 universities. 33% of the highest paid positions belong to women. 47% of deans are women. 45% of department heads are women. Male full professors make on average $7,110 more than women. The average salary for female full professors is around $97,000 compared to the average of $104,000 that a male professor makes. There is a significant positive relationship between the percentage of women in the top 20 highest paid positions and having a female president. There is a positive relationship between the percentage of department heads that are women and the percent women in the top 20 highest paid. There is a negative relationship between the percentage of women in the top 20 highest paid positions and the gender salary gap for full professors, meaning universities with more highly paid women have less of a gap in the pay for full professors. There is a positive relationship between the percentage of the student body that is African American and the percentage of women in the top 5 highest paid. Universities with more highly paid women are associated with more African American students.
  • Kaitlyn Sisco. (University of Mississippi) Un forzudo con peluca [A strongman with a wig]: Gender Dynamics and Feminine Erasure in Club Andino Bariloche.
    The Club Andino Bariloche (CAB) is an Argentine mountaineering and winter sports club that was established in San Carlos de Bariloche in 1931. The CAB has been historically charged with constructing mountain refuges, spearheading ambitious expeditions, and facilitating educational courses on mountaineering, skiing, and nature. A recently established digital archive of CAB annual reports chronicles these activities, offering insight into the club’s configuration of gender, nature, and sport. This paper provides a historical assessment of gender dynamics and mountaineering subjectivities in the CAB’s archive from 1931 to 2011. Specifically, I examine how club members describe the presence of women within the association, the successes and failures of women in mountain sports, and gendered characterizations of the Andean landscape. I argue that a history of feminine erasure marks much of the CAB expeditionary record, drawing attention to gendered ideology of masculine control over mountain space. For most of the CAB’s existence, male mountaineers have denigrated the accomplishments of women and appropriated images of femininity and sexual conquest to construct the Andes as a space of masculine power, status, and accomplishment. Though some semblance of mutual respect emerges in the 1980s, the CAB has historically considered mountaineering incommensurable with femininity— effectively erasing any sense of womanhood from the mountaineering world. Keywords: Argentina, mountaineering, gender, feminism, nature, Patagonia, Andes
  • Jodie Boisvert. (Florida Atlantic University) An Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Effects of Migration on Xenophobia.
    Employing the scholarly work of interdisciplinary intellectuals, this project seeks to identify the connection between migration and xenophobia in the United States. The paper engages with the theories of globalization (Noland, 2005), visible and invisible immigrants (Savas et al.,2021), Xenophobia (van deer Veer, et al. 2013), and the concepts of assimilation versus interculturalism (Yogeeswaran, 2021). Through the course of this paper, the author analyzes mixed-method approaches from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology to study whether xenophobia has been on the rise in the United States due to the increase in migration or some other factors. The paper finds that while visible xenophobia has been on the rise in the United States over the last decade, the cause is more complex than simple migration. Scholars believe that an array of factors including political leaders, media, and migration have negatively impacted the instances of xenophobia in the United States. This analytical paper is a pre-cursor to a larger qualitative study looking to discover Americans’ perceptions of the causes of xenophobia in the United States.
  • Obina Amuneke. (Valdosta State University) Black People’s Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice Systems of the USA and Canada and the Impact of Black Lives Matter on Criminal Justice Policies.
    Previous research has found a disproportional number of Black males are incarcerated in the USA, Canada, and England; this study aims to explore the current incarceration rate of Black people in the USA and Canada regardless of gender. Furthermore, the author analyzes whether Black Lives Matter (BLM) impacts criminal justice policies in the U.S. and Canada. Utilizing the Qualitative Comparative Analysis methodology and Critical Race Theory framework, the author found the U.S. incarcerates black people at slightly higher rates than Canada. At this current time, the researcher cannot conclude whether BLM has influenced criminal justice policies pertaining to black people in the two countries. Due to the disproportionality in the criminal justice system, Black communities have a larger number of formerly incarcerated folks that face high unemployment rates and lack of access to housing.

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Mar 11th, 10:00 AM Mar 11th, 11:30 AM

Inequity in the Human Experience

VSU University Center, Magnolia Room 2

Inequity in the Human Experience (Jodie Boisvert, Session Chair)

  • Tanisha Goldsboro. (Valdosta State University) Gaps in Women’s Leadership and Pay Across 26 University System of Georgia Institutions.
    Nationally, women make up about 60% of college students. Does leadership of University System of Georgia (USG) institutions reflect the same gender distribution? And, are there gender pay gaps across universities in Georgia? This study was conducted using entirely publicly available data. We collected name, title, and salary data from openGA.gov for the year 2020 and combined this with a gender variable we created by inferring gender based on first and middle names, and referring to faculty biographies for gender pronouns. The findings that in the Georgia university system, there are 7 female presidents out of 26 universities. 33% of the highest paid positions belong to women. 47% of deans are women. 45% of department heads are women. Male full professors make on average $7,110 more than women. The average salary for female full professors is around $97,000 compared to the average of $104,000 that a male professor makes. There is a significant positive relationship between the percentage of women in the top 20 highest paid positions and having a female president. There is a positive relationship between the percentage of department heads that are women and the percent women in the top 20 highest paid. There is a negative relationship between the percentage of women in the top 20 highest paid positions and the gender salary gap for full professors, meaning universities with more highly paid women have less of a gap in the pay for full professors. There is a positive relationship between the percentage of the student body that is African American and the percentage of women in the top 5 highest paid. Universities with more highly paid women are associated with more African American students.
  • Kaitlyn Sisco. (University of Mississippi) Un forzudo con peluca [A strongman with a wig]: Gender Dynamics and Feminine Erasure in Club Andino Bariloche.
    The Club Andino Bariloche (CAB) is an Argentine mountaineering and winter sports club that was established in San Carlos de Bariloche in 1931. The CAB has been historically charged with constructing mountain refuges, spearheading ambitious expeditions, and facilitating educational courses on mountaineering, skiing, and nature. A recently established digital archive of CAB annual reports chronicles these activities, offering insight into the club’s configuration of gender, nature, and sport. This paper provides a historical assessment of gender dynamics and mountaineering subjectivities in the CAB’s archive from 1931 to 2011. Specifically, I examine how club members describe the presence of women within the association, the successes and failures of women in mountain sports, and gendered characterizations of the Andean landscape. I argue that a history of feminine erasure marks much of the CAB expeditionary record, drawing attention to gendered ideology of masculine control over mountain space. For most of the CAB’s existence, male mountaineers have denigrated the accomplishments of women and appropriated images of femininity and sexual conquest to construct the Andes as a space of masculine power, status, and accomplishment. Though some semblance of mutual respect emerges in the 1980s, the CAB has historically considered mountaineering incommensurable with femininity— effectively erasing any sense of womanhood from the mountaineering world. Keywords: Argentina, mountaineering, gender, feminism, nature, Patagonia, Andes
  • Jodie Boisvert. (Florida Atlantic University) An Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Effects of Migration on Xenophobia.
    Employing the scholarly work of interdisciplinary intellectuals, this project seeks to identify the connection between migration and xenophobia in the United States. The paper engages with the theories of globalization (Noland, 2005), visible and invisible immigrants (Savas et al.,2021), Xenophobia (van deer Veer, et al. 2013), and the concepts of assimilation versus interculturalism (Yogeeswaran, 2021). Through the course of this paper, the author analyzes mixed-method approaches from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology to study whether xenophobia has been on the rise in the United States due to the increase in migration or some other factors. The paper finds that while visible xenophobia has been on the rise in the United States over the last decade, the cause is more complex than simple migration. Scholars believe that an array of factors including political leaders, media, and migration have negatively impacted the instances of xenophobia in the United States. This analytical paper is a pre-cursor to a larger qualitative study looking to discover Americans’ perceptions of the causes of xenophobia in the United States.
  • Obina Amuneke. (Valdosta State University) Black People’s Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice Systems of the USA and Canada and the Impact of Black Lives Matter on Criminal Justice Policies.
    Previous research has found a disproportional number of Black males are incarcerated in the USA, Canada, and England; this study aims to explore the current incarceration rate of Black people in the USA and Canada regardless of gender. Furthermore, the author analyzes whether Black Lives Matter (BLM) impacts criminal justice policies in the U.S. and Canada. Utilizing the Qualitative Comparative Analysis methodology and Critical Race Theory framework, the author found the U.S. incarcerates black people at slightly higher rates than Canada. At this current time, the researcher cannot conclude whether BLM has influenced criminal justice policies pertaining to black people in the two countries. Due to the disproportionality in the criminal justice system, Black communities have a larger number of formerly incarcerated folks that face high unemployment rates and lack of access to housing.