Donna Ginther  is an Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center or Economic and Business Analysis at the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas.  Prior to joining the University of Kansas faculty, she was a research economist and associate policy adviser in the regional group of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002, and taught at Washington University from 1997 to 2000 and Southern Methodist University from 1995 to 1997.  Her major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, scientific entrepreneurship, and children's educational attainments.

Dr. Ginther has been published in several journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Demography, and the Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association.  She has also received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Kauffman Foundation.  She is currently a a member of the Board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association in charge of organizing the CeMENT national mentoring workshops. 

A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Ginther received her doctorate in economics in 1995, master's degree in economics in 1991, and bachelor of arts in economics in 1987, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can read more about Donna Ginther's academic career here. http://www.cswep.org/newsletters/CSWEP_nsltr_SprSum_2006.pdf