%0 Report %A Guarino, Cassandra M. %A Borden, Victor M. H. %T Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family? %D 2016 %8 2016 Jun %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 10010 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10010 %X This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2012 data from an online annual performance reporting system for tenured and tenure-track faculty at two campuses of a large public, Midwestern university as well as 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions. We find evidence in both data sources that women faculty perform significantly more service than men, controlling for rank, race/ethnicity, and field or department. Our analyses suggest that the male-female differential is driven primarily by internal service – i.e., service to the university, campus, or department – rather than external service – i.e., service to the local, national, and international communities. %K faculty %K gender