![]() In 2004, women earned only 58 cents on the male dollar. The gap has narrowed quite a bit in the past decade. In recent years the Jeopardy gap has been as small as a few cents, and in 2012 women and men achieved complete pay parity. This gender pay gap - measured in terms of average winnings per game - is slightly smaller than the gap in the general labor force, where women earn 84 cents on the male dollar, according to Pew Research Center estimates. The statistics also show that, this year, female Jeopardy champions are winning 89 cents on the dollar compared to men. It will be interesting to see whether the strong showing by women in the first half of this season will continue. But overall the numbers are trending upward. Last year, for instance, women won only 23 percent of the time. The yearly percentages do jump around quite a bit. Seven out of nine of the show's writers are male, as are four of the five researchers. There's also been some speculation that Jeopardy questions are biased toward men. Only 40 percent of contestants are female, according to a recent Slate analysis. The historical disparity between male and female win frequencies can partially be explained by the fact that women are less likely to appear on Jeopardy in general. Aside from Collins, contestants Sandie Baker and Sarah McNitt have also gone on five-plus game winning streaks this season. But so far this year, women are winning more than 50 percent of the time. In 2004, 14 percent of Jeopardy winners were female. The conclusion: Women are winning more often than they used to. After tossing out records with names showing a gender certainty of less than 85 percent, and records that the scraper couldn't parse due to irregularities on the j-archive site, I ended up with a sample of a little over 1,800 Jeopardy matches. ![]() ![]() ![]() I ran the names through genderize.io to determine the likely gender of each winner. I scraped the site for the winners and winnings of each show for the past 10 years. How have women fared compared with men in the game's history overall? Is there a gender pay gap in Jeopardy winnings similar to the pay gap seen in the workforce?įor answers I turned to, a "Jeopardy" fan site that maintains records of nearly every episode that's aired in the Alex Trebek era of the show. Only three players have won more: Arthur Chu, who had 11 wins this year Dave Madden, who won 19 games in 2005 and, of course, Ken Jennings, the current record holder with his 74-game win streak in 2004. Jeopardy contestant Julia Collins is making news for being the most successful woman in the game's history, at nine wins and counting before Monday night. ![]()
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