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A Culture of Equality: Explaining Equitable/Inequitable Compensation in the American States
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A Culture of Equality?
Describing and Explaining Equitable/Inequitable Compensation in the American States*
Cynthia Bowling
Auburn University
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Christine A. Kelleher
Villanova University
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Deil S. Wright
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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August 2006
ABSTRACT
Gender equity is a complex concept that can be viewed from many different angles and
using a variety of lenses. Of particular interest to scholars of public administration are questions dealing with equity in representation. In this paper, we investigate equity in American state and local government employment via both descriptive and preliminary explanatory analyses. We rely primarily on the literature of representative bureaucracy to formulate our expectations, and we use data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2005, supplemented with other state-level demographic, political, and economic measures, to perform the empirical analyses. Our results point to notable variation in equity across the American states in representation and compensation, as well as to the importance and utility of a multifaceted framework for understanding equity and equality.
*Please do not cite without permission.
This paper was prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2006) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We would also like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Auburn University Center for Governmental Services and Department of Political Science, and the Odum Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at UNC-CH.
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| | Authors: Kelleher, Christine., Bowling, Cynthia. and Wright, Deil. |
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A Culture of Equality?
Describing and Explaining Equitable/Inequitable Compensation in the American States*
Cynthia Bowling
Auburn University
## email not listed ##
Christine A. Kelleher
Villanova University
christine.## email not listed ##
Deil S. Wright
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
## email not listed ##
August 2006
ABSTRACT
Gender equity is a complex concept that can be viewed from many different angles and
using a variety of lenses. Of particular interest to scholars of public administration are questions
dealing with equity in representation. In this paper, we investigate equity in American state and
local government employment via both descriptive and preliminary explanatory analyses. We
rely primarily on the literature of representative bureaucracy to formulate our expectations, and
we use data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2005,
supplemented with other state-level demographic, political, and economic measures, to perform
the empirical analyses. Our results point to notable variation in equity across the American
states in representation and compensation, as well as to the importance and utility of a
multifaceted framework for understanding equity and equality.
*Please do not cite without permission.
This paper was prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
(2006) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We would also like to gratefully acknowledge the support
of the Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Auburn University Center for Governmental
Services and Department of Political Science, and the Odum Institute for Research in the Social
Sciences at UNC-CH.
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