60秒科学:男女收入差异仍然很大

你可能觉得年轻女科学家挣的钱没有男性多，然而，那些身居高位的资深女科学家们，她们的收入仍比同职位的男性少。

Veteran Women BioMed Researchers Still Shortchanged

You might expect young women scientists to make less than older men. But veteran female life science researchers, even in very advanced positions, still make less than their male counterparts. So finds a report in the journal Academic Medicine.

Previous studies about income disparities in the life sciences didn’t take into account factors such as holding leadership positions. So for this study, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed more than 3,000 investigators¹ at the top 50 academic medical centers. The anonymous² responses included information on professional leadership activities, the number of papers published and the journals they were in, hours spent working on professional, scientific and clinical activities—and, of course, pay.

Women in the same academic positions as men worked more hours. But they made on average six to 15,000 dollars less per year than their male counterparts.

Over a 30-year career for an average faculty³ member, that disparity could result in a more than $200,000 difference. Lead researcher Eric Campbell says he suspects that, “Major systemic changes will be needed if we ever hope to achieve the ideal of equal pay for equal work in academic medicine.”

—Cynthia Graber
 

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

3 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。