What roles are we modeling? Gendered academic employment and its consequences

According to the most extensive analysis available, wages among part-time faculty are roughly equal for men and women on average (Coalition on the Academic Workforce 2012). If the career experience of her faculty role models is one of lower earning potential and continued barriers to advancement into senior positions - or even to a stable career - what signals does that send about her own career aspirations to the supposedly unfettered woman student? [...]we are truly able to eliminate gender inequity in academic employment and provide role models that our women students can emulate without reservation, our hopes for their attaining their unlimited potential are tinged with doubt.