Katie Benson
Research Associate
Katie joined AAUW in October 2012 and has worked on Women in Community Colleges: Access to Success, Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing, The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, and most recently Barriers and Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership. Her interests include researching issues related to human trafficking, cooking, exercise, and cats.
Work by Katie Benson
How Can We Close the Gender Leadership Gap?
Women make up more than half of college graduates and half the labor force, and have long careers in many fields — so there’s no lack of women to fill leadership positions. But we’re still not represented at the upper levels. Read more »
See Your State’s Report Card on Community Colleges
While the Women in Community Colleges: Access to Success report offers data at the national level of how community colleges are working well — and where they’re falling short — the numbers at the state level tell their own stories. Read more »
How Does Race Affect the Gender Wage Gap?
Race and ethnicity have always created a dividing line in the United States, and it’s no different with the gender pay gap. Read more »
What “Community” Has to Say about Community College
Earlier this month, I settled in to watch the fourth-season finale of the NBC sitcom Community. At the episode’s airing the threat of cancellation was looming, and I wondered if […] Read more »
What Does It Mean to Lose 6 Percent of Your Paycheck?
One year after college graduation, women are already paid less than the men with whom they graduated. Some of this difference is explained by factors known to affect earnings, such […] Read more »
What Does Race Have to Do with a Woman’s Salary? A Lot.
Race/ethnicity has always created a dividing line in the United States, and it’s no different with the pay gap. Each year, AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap […] Read more »
The Importance of Race When Discussing the Wage Gap
Each year, AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap addresses this question, and, of course, the answer is that the pay gap affects all women; but it doesn’t […] Read more »
The Simple Truth about The Simple Truth
For a century, AAUW has advocated for legislation and policies that encourage and enforce fair pay in the workplace, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Lilly […] Read more »
