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UC Davis Faculty Salary Study
From Notice of the Academic Senate, SF Chronicle, Davis Enterprise and Dateline (UCD law students' paper)
A study of UCD faculty salaries co-authored in 1994 by Vice Provost Carol
Tomlinson-Keasey, her academic assistant Joyce Strand and Professor of Statistics
Jessica Utts, showed women's salaries to be lower in every academic group when
controlled for time from hire and time from receipt of final degree. In response UCD's
Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) proposed to review and adjust individual
women's compensation and then to follow the same procedures for any men thought to
be underpaid.
Both the report and the proposed remedy drew immediate attack. Sixty-two
Academic Senate members petitioned for a mail ballot on replacing the proposed
compensation reviews with a new study of comparative salaries based on statistical
measures of merit. The vote favored their proposal but was not binding on the
Academic Senate. In February of this year the Senate's Representative Assembly voted
to direct the CAP to proceed with its original plan but to make the effective date of any salary adjustments the same for men and women.
UC Davis is to be congratulated for stopping the cycle of endless unimplemented
studies and undertaking a review of women's compensation, but a critical question
remains unanswered. Will the CAP look at the records of comparable men to see if a
woman is paid correctly, or will they look for flaws in the woman in order to justify her present salary? The CAP chair was quoted in the Notice as saying, "We don't put much
stock in the idea that there has been intentional discrimination against women on the
basis of gender."
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