The Lateral Hiring Market for Law Professors and Other Reading

A new paper by Paul M. Secunda, an assistant professor of law at the University of Mississippi, looks at the lateral hiring market for law professors.

Leslie Morgan Steiner over at The Washington Post’s On Balance blog recently took up the issue of maternal profiling. She asked, “Is there an uncomfortable, but legitimate, business dynamic at work in situations that look like ‘maternal profiling?’” I’d have to say no. Your thoughts?

Check out last week’s Two-Year Track column, which features readers’ advice to interviewers on how to treat job candidates. It’s a follow-up to February’s column about what job seekers should not do in interviews.

According a recent study by academics at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Social and Urban Research, the gender gap in salaries in Pittsburgh is far greater than the national average, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:

Women make up 48 percent of the Pittsburgh area work force, yet female managers earned just 58.3 percent of local men and 89.5 percent of what women around the country made, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. Women in management positions at local nonprofits fared only slightly better, earning 64.3 percent of their male counterparts.

Local men, meanwhile, outearned their counterparts around the country.

More education, as it turns out, did not narrow this gender gap. Women without a high-school degree earned 75 percent of what men made in 2000, while women with a graduate degree earned 71 percent of graduate-level men.