Polly A. Phipps is an American sociologist and social statistician. She is a Senior Survey Methodologist in the Office of Survey Methods Research of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.[1] She has also collaborated with several societies of mathematicians to survey the employment of recent doctorates in mathematics.[2]

Education and career

Phipps is originally from Spokane, Washington. She has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in sociology, from the University of Washington, Vanderbilt University, and University of Michigan respectively.[3] At the University of Michigan, Phipps' doctoral research included studying the inroads made by women into previously male-dominated careers in pharmacy and insurance; her 1989 dissertation was Sex segregation and the changing sex composition of insurance adjusters and examiners.[4] She joined the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the late 1980s.[3]

Recognition

In 2006–2007, the Washington Statistical Society gave Phipps their President's Award.[5] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Contact us, Office of Survey Methods Research, retrieved 2019-12-06
  2. ↑ AMS-ASA-MAA-SIAM Data Committee Past Members, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-12-06
  3. 1 2 "Polly Phipps", A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Women in Statistics, Amstat News, March 1, 2019
  4. ↑ Reskin, Barbara F.; Roos, Patricia A. (2009), Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads Into Male Occupations, Temple University Press, pp. x, 354, ISBN 9781439901595
  5. ↑ Montaquila, Jill (September 2007), "Washington Statistical Society 2006–07 Annual Report", Newsletter of the Washington Statistical Society
  6. ↑ "WSS Members Elected as Fellows of the American Statistical Association" (PDF), Newsletter of the Washington Statistical Society: 7, July–August 2013
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