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]
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]
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]