E-mail: Policy and Caution
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Grievance Filed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
www.LaboratoryGenderEquity.homestead.com documents a grievance regarding gender inequity in pay filed by six female procurement specialists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These specialists have also filed a complaint with the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

May 2001 -- State audit of UC hiring finished!!

California State Auditor/Bureau of State Audits Summary of Report Number 2000-131 - May 2001: University of California: Some Campuses and Academic Departments Need to Take Additional Steps to Resolve Gender Disparities Among Professors is finished.

The summary of report may be viewed at: http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/.

You can see the full report at: http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/pdfs/2000131.pdf.

Sharon Wilson vs. UCD: Settlement Angela Spell vs. UCD: Petition to the U.S. Supreme Court Colleen Crangle vs. Stanford University: Settlement Tracey A. Lee vs. UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Singleton et al. vs. UC Regents and Bruce Tarter LLNL, Director Diane Reifschneider vs. UCLA: Continues
Kathleen Melez vs. UCLA: UC Wins on Summary Judgment Even More Cases . . Harvard News Briefs University of Wisconsin Fires Tenured Professor Book Review by Cathy Kessel Other University Lawsuits

Welcome to Newsletter #16
by Cathy Kessel
Welcome! The struggle for equity at UC and other academic institutions continues, but we’ve had some successes. Sharon Wilson’s case at UCD has settled and so has Colleen Crangle’s case at Stanford. A woman is now dean of the School of Education at Stanford. On the East Coast, women are now presidents of three Ivy League universities.

Crangle and Margit Stange, whose case at UCD settled last year, are featured in an article on discrimination in academe in the August issue of Ms. An article about the class-action suit at LLNL will be appearing in AWIS Magazine. This publicity is welcome, and, unfortunately, necessary. News about discrimination in academe needs to be spread. New cases continue to arise, at UC and elsewhere. We hope for positive results from the State Audit recommendations and the Department of Labor investigations of UC and Stanford. But we suspect that for years to come, women in academe will need the knowledge, experience, and support of and academic institutions will need continued pressure from lawsuits and publicity, and our individual actions.

Web Sites of Interest
 http://www.LaboratoryGenderEquity.homestead.com Six professional employees are demanding equal pay for equal work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

www.fourthbucket.org dedicated to an examination of the appropriateness of collegiality -- the fourth bucket -- as a criterion of tenure and promotion of faculty in colleges and universities.

www.advancingwomen.com/index.html (Advancing Women Network) has an article about Getting Recognized - Not So Easy Task for Women.

Oda, et al. v. University of Washington is a class-action suit concerning gender inequity in faculty pay (see Spring 2001 Newsletter). For more information, see www.washington.edu/faculty/facsenate/lawsuit/contents.htm and www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnyc/news/other/article/100468.html.

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