Female Minority Profs Paid Less Than White Men at Berkeley
Oh my. Students might protest when they finish with more important matters.
Paul Caron of the TaxProfBlog reports.
Female, Minority Professors Are Paid Less Than White Male Professors at UC-Berkeley
UC-Berkeley Press Release, Campus Poised to Act on Salary Gaps for Women, Minority Faculty:
The gaps aren’t large, nor are the causes clear. But the campus is already planning to act on new findings that average salaries for women and minority-group faculty at UC Berkeley lag behind those for white men in similar fields, and with comparable professional experience.
A just-released study shows that average salaries for underrepresented minority faculty members trail those of their white male counterparts by 1 to 1.8 percent. Gaps between women and white males were slightly larger, with a range between 1.8 and 4.3 percent.
The report calls for further research to investigate reasons for the differences — which it notes could result from a mix of factors — and lays out measures to make salaries more equitable for all Berkeley ladder faculty.
A key recommendation is to create a new “targeted decoupling initiative” to provide salary increases for faculty beyond what ordinary advancement in rank and step allows. The findings of the study would provide important data to help build the new salary program.
Female, Minority Professors Are Paid Less Than White Male Professors at UC-Berkeley (TaxProfBlog)
Comments
ANY discrimination is wrong … however, comma ..
1.0% – 4.3% …. Are you serious!? Oh, and of note – not anywhere NEAR the 27% we get hammered with in the media.
And, of course, what I suspect, but will never be admitted, is how many of these women have taken all sorts of special exceptions in time due to familial obligations or opted to work less to have a better life/work balance ….