Sex Segregation in Academic Profession and the Gender Difference of Faculty Income
It is an empirical study with focusing on the status of sex segregation in academic profession and its relationship to the gender difference of faculty income.There are horizontal and vertical sex segregations in the academic labor market.No disciplinary sex segregation is more serious than that in engineering and nature sciences,and this phenomenon is the least in medical and life sciences.In terms of the sex segregation in academic rank, the polar ones are more distinct than that any other periods,and high ranked faculty are constantly occupied with males,leaving females mainly with low ranks.The study finds out that the sex segregation in academic rank system is much more serious than in the disciplinary ones,and the gender difference of faculty income mainly results from the vertical sex segregation in academic rank rather than the disciplinary one.