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WHAT WAGE CAN ACCOMPLISH
WAGE can restore UC to a leadership position as an institution representing
the most enlightened social values. As a large multi campus mega institution, UC has
the resources to find even better solutions to pervasive discrimination than smaller
institutions. When taxpayers learn just how much they are paying to perpetuate rather
than eliminate gender discrimination, they will certainly refuse to continue to pay.
The money UC uses to fight these cases should instead be used for educational
purposes, especially in this time of severe cutbacks.
WAGE is concerned with all gender equity issues including those
documented in
rank and promotion studies. For example, a 1991 study at UCB revealed striking
disparities among midlevel faculty. The study states that only 3% of women faculty
members who earned their degrees 8-11 years ago are full professors, compared to 20%
of men. Moreover, the report states that 44% of UCB women faculty are untenured
assistant professors, compared to 18% of men.
WAGE can prevent future generations from going through the indignities
that UC academic women have thus far suffered. We know it can be done. Recently, after
being wracked with lawsuits, a complete overhaul of the University of Wisconsin
system was mandated by the US Department of Education, the US Department of Labor, the
US Department of Justice, and the US Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, as well
as the courts. WAGE hopes to effect reform of the UC system in a quicker, less disruptive
fashion. WAGE intends to publicize the UC record, testify at public hearings, and otherwise
enlist the university and the general community to insist upon immediate corrective
measures.
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