Women at Modern Orthodox Day Schools Part 2
Addressing some questions and critiques, and a bit more data
Read Part 1 here.
In the last post, I showed that there were more male administrators at the highest levels of modern orthodox day schools than females, with the gap being much wider in some states than others. I also showed that males were generally paid more per year than women within the same schools, and for the same positions among different schools in the same state. No one argued or critiqued the first point — that there are more male admins.
As for the wage gap, people wanted to know if I controlled for various factors (number of hours worked, years of experience, school size, etc.). The answer is (1) no, because I don’t have access to most of that data, and (2) I’m not sure it’s relevant. If I argued that the disparity is definitely due to sexism, then I’d have to control for various non-sexism-related factors. But I did not argue this. I’m just looking at yearly compensation and noting a disparity.
And let’s say, hypothetically, that we discovered that the pay gap is entirely explained by years of experience. Then what? We’re still left with a disparity, and we’re still left wondering why male administrators have more experience than female administrators.
Anyway, here’s some possibly-related data. I went through all the 990s again and this is what I discovered: of all the modern orthodox day schools that filed 990s, only 4 had female board presidents.