Nonetheless, given the younger age of the women, we can speculate that men were more likely to be settledin their family relationships, be providing for older children, and have spouses who did not work outside of the home. Women, in contrast, may have been more likely than men to be contemplating a future of marriage and children or to be responsible for providing care for younger children. Unfortunately, the sample of ethnic minority psychologists in this group is too small to report differences by ethnicity with any reliability. Nonetheless, when conceptualizing where employment opportunities might be found for psychologists in academe, the broader context should be kept in mind. In particular, women constitute the vast majority of part-time psychology faculty in private research universities.
Women differ from men on the critical status indicators of rank and tenure.
Among individuals in a tenure system, untenured women were more likely to be found on the tenure track than untenured men. Women were more likely than men not even to be in a tenure system, however. Income disparities Salary differentials persist, and men are also more likely to have other sources of income than their basic faculty salary from sources both within and outside of their institution, increasing the gap betweentotal annual incomes of women and men. But salaries are not the only source of income from an institution. Indeed, in many institutions, individuals on 9-month contracts can be awarded a research or teaching stipend for the remaining 3 months as additional compensation.