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Show Campus News Page 4 to Statesman NEWS I GUIDES I PERKS U.!ai! Statesman Ors Spain" 4:10.pcie 1.1 rt """ H Boehm" Orb IR .4 Wm.- I. 3.56 4 UN. rt 11.0 LIfiihttlaternua Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Wednesday: Original plans for Common Hour discussed and revised continued from page 1 tions were asked for points of clarification, and one member of the senate commented that USU had a common hour in the past but the program was terminated due to low student attendance at lectures. "That seems odd that we disrupt all of campus for an event that accommodates 200-300 students," said Craig Petersen, economics and finance professor. Olsen said the common hour will provide time for more than just event schedul- ing, giving the example of students working on an assignment in groups. "Students are very good at filling those gaps in," Olsen said. While implementation of a major change will always raise concerns, Jakus said the Wednesday compromise minimizes the issues created with common hour. "What I do like about the compromise is it definitely gives the Common Hour a chance to succeed," he said. "You don't have as many dominoes falling down the line. It becomes much easier to implement." Jakus said the feedback to the new proposal has been mostly positive. The majority of lingering concerns have less to do with scheduling conflicts and more with whether or not Common Hour is a worthwhile endeavor. Jakus was optimistic about the program's goals, especially its potential to allow time for faculty and student group meetings. "If students use it for that, that's great, and it will be worth the effort," Jakus said. Mortensen and the staff of the Registrar's office ran multiple scenarios for Common Hour, looking at what times and days of the week would require the greatest class relocation. The Wednesday proposal, he said, leaves only 15 courses that will require special assignment after exemptions are accounted for. "If we have to have a Common Hour this one is the least cost," Mortensen said. Labs and classes longer than 90 minutes will be exempt from the changes, for a total of 52 such courses in the latest version of Common Hour. Mortensen said once a final version of Common Hour has been officially approved by the administration, schedulers will turn the classroom allotment and course selection over to the various department heads. — b.c.wood@aggiemad.usu.edu Salary: Women in Utah leadership positions lower than national average I continued from page 1 she has a family she would like to stay home and raise children. A lot of Utah women are steered into different jobs such as education or family consumer and human development because of their upbringing, Walker said. Download the iPhone App Now "A significant proportion of my current work looks at the motherhood penalty," said recently- tenured professor Christy Glass. 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"We used to think it was a gap driven by differences between men and women," Glass said, "but contemporary research suggests that it's not a gap between men and women, per se, the wage gap is largely driven by wage penalties that mothers face, compared to non-mothers." The problem with wage disparity is less, Glass said, when looking at women who are not mothers, than when compared with women who are mothers. She said scholars have shown that women pay a 6-7 percent wage penalty per child, which means they make 6-7 cents on the dollar less than men for each child they have. Glass said there are two possible strategies for reducing the sting of the motherhood penalty. First, policy makers would have to increase the penalty for employer discrimination and second, if the government provided subsidized health care, single, working mothers would experience less adversity within the labor market. Another professor from the SSWA department, Amy Bailey, who teaches a social inequality class, said national averages show that women in general make 23 percent less — 77 cents on the dollar — than men to begin with. In Utah this number is even lower, at 68 cents on the dollar. "I didn't want to be one of those moms who work at Wal-Mart or waitresses when she's 35 or 40," Walker said. "I wanted to be somewhere with a good career that you can look Common Literature Experience We invite you to participate in the 2011 common literature experience: Read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers "Zeitoun offers a transformative experience to anyone open to it, for the simple reason that it is not heavyhanded propaganda, not eat-your-peas social analysis, but an adventure story, a tale of suffering and redemption, almost biblical in its simplicty, the trials of a good man who believes in God and happens to have a canoe. Anyone who cares about America, where it is going and where it almost went, before it caught itself, will want to read this thrilling, heartbreaking, wonderful book." Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times Attend the Connections Convocation Saturday, August 27, 2011 9:30 a.m. Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center Free Admission Speaker: Chris Rose The USU Connections program presents Chris Rose of the new Orleans Times-Picayune as the 2011 Convocation speaker. Rose was a finalist for a Pulitzer in Distinguished Commentary in 2006 and was part of the Times-Picayune team that won the 2006 Public Service Pulitzer in 2006 for the newspaper's Hurricane Katrina coverage; he also was a finalist that year for a Michael Kelly Award, named after the Atlantic magazine editor who was killed as an embedded reporter during the Iraq invasion in 2003. Chris Rose Pulitzer Prize Winner New Orlean Times-Picayne Rose also has a book of collected Katrina columns, 1 Dead in Attic, "recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor—in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland," according to his publisher. "They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life." For more information go to: http://www.usu.edu/connections/literatureexperience/ or contact Noelle Call, Director of Retention and Student Success at (435) 797-1132. 410 USU Charter Zeitoun is available at the CREDIT UNION usu Bookstore up to and model after." Utah is also fourth from the bottom out of the 50 states for educational attainment between men and women, Bailey said. The NPWF report states that 81,171 households in Utah are headed by women, and 24 percent of households headed by women in Utah live below the poverty line. This translates into more than 19,000 families whose financial standings would be improved if the wage gap is eliminated, according to the report. "If you consider the high rates of labor force participation that we observe among women in Utah, regardless of what our culture and ideology and religion tell us should be happening," Bailey said. "The reality is that women in Utah are participating at very high rates and our families are suffering." Moon said she believes that women should be allowed to do what they want, even if that means withdrawing from the labor force to stay at home to raise children. Gender Steering — Nurture vs. Nature Especially in Utah, due to the proliferation of patriarchal culture, women tend to take jobs in education and social sciences, Moon said, as opposed to men who typically take jobs in the hard sciences. "I think that they (women) don't necessarily deserve to be paid less because of the type of job it is," Moon said. "For example, teachers should probably be paid more than they are. There are more men teachers now than there were but in general there are still more women teachers." Gender steering is the concept that people are steered into different jobs based on their gender as a result of how they are socialized as children, said Professor Peg Petrzelka of the SSWA department. She said she assigns an exercise to her intro to sociology classes in which the students analyze faculty salaries to see how gender relates to wages on campus. "If you look at the top 25 (earning faculty members), you can see that there are very few in leadership positions here that are women," Petrzelka said. "Then if you look at the lowest 25 in the staff assistant positions, you can see that the vast majority of them are women. Austin said it is important to note that the College of Agriculture has increased from 21 percent in 2006, to 30 percent in 2010 in tenure and tenure-track positions for women. She said in order to match the peer-institution average of 38 percent, USU would have to hire 68 women without hiring any more men. "Women shouldn't be discouraged from doing anything they want to do because they feel like they're going to get the second-string," Walker said. "It's what you make of it, and if you want to be assertive and aggressive and promote yourself up to the man's level, then you can. You just got to grab life by the balls." — dan.whitney.smith@aggiemail. usu.edu |