Corrigendum

Li, D., & Koedel, C. (2017). Representation and salary gaps by race-ethnicity and gender at selective public universities. Educational Researcher, 46, 7, 343–354. (Original DOI: 10.3102/0013189X17726535)

In this article published in the October 2017 issue, all 12 field-specific, gender-share values for assistant professors are incorrect in Table 4. The incorrect values wrongly imply that the representation of women in STEM fields among assistant professors is similar to the representation of women in STEM fields among recent PhD completers in the SED; however, the corrected numbers make clear that women are underrepresented as assistant professors in STEM fields relative to their representation in PhD production. The gender representation numbers in non-STEM fields for assistant professors are also incorrect in the published version of Table 4, but the true values are similar to the erroneously reported values and there is no substantive implication of the error. The correct numbers are shown in the corrected version of Table 4 below. One additional typo in the racial/ethnic shares is also corrected.

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Table 4

Comparison of Race/Ethnicity and Gender Representation by Field in PhD Production Data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates at Top-50 Universities, and Among Assistant Professors in Our Data (Percentages)

	Biology	Chemistry	Economics	Education (Leadership/Policy)	English	Sociology
Racial/ethnic shares
Asian	13.7 [20.3]	9.8 [19.4]	16.8 [34.2]	10.3 [17.5]	5.3 [12.8]	12.2 [6.9]
Black	3.6 [0.4]	2.5 [0.9]	2.7 [2.4]	15.5 [15.9]	1.8 [8.6]	3.9 [13.7]
Hispanic	6.2 [3.6]	6.8 [6.5]	5.0 [11.0]	7.2 [4.8]	8.5 [4.3]	8.3 [11.0]
White	70.6 [75.8]	74.7 [73.2]	70.0 [52.4]	58.8 [61.9]	78.9 [74.4]	71.7 [68.5]
Other/unknown	5.9 [0.0]	6.2 [0.0]	5.5 [0.0]	8.2 [0.0]	5.5 [0.0]	3.9 [0.0]
Gender shares
Female	53.7 [40.6]	38.3 [26.9]	29.9 [25.0]	63.1 [60.3]	54.3 [58.1]	63.8 [60.3]
Male	46.1 [59.4]	61.6 [73.2]	69.9 [75.0]	36.9 [39.7]	45.7 [41.9]	36.2 [39.7]
Unknown	0.2 [0.0]	0.1 [0.0]	0.2 [0.0]	0.0 [0.0]	0.0 [0.0]	0.0 [0.0]
N	3,506 [281]	1,020 [108]	581 [164]	103 [63]	525 [117]	290 [73]

Note. The first number in each cell is the SED percentage of degrees produced by field in 2013–2014 at top 50 universities; the second number is square brackets the percentage of assistant professors in that field in our data from 2015–2016. The SED data are restricted to doctorate recipients who graduated from universities on the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges 2016” list of top 50 universities, inclusive of private universities. Bolded entries indicate cells where the published number reported for our data (in brackets) has been corrected.