notes that she is “compensated at a higher rate than the majority of professors in the [University of Oregon’s ] College of Arts and Sciences” and that she “is the sixteenth highest paid faculty member in her department of ninety professors.”
Apart from the differences in job responsibilities, the university found that Professor Freyd’s colleagues had received retention raises, meaning that they had received attractive enough offers from other schools that the University of Oregon had to raise their pay to retain them. Professor Freyd had never sought a retention raise. Interestingly, her prior employer, Cornell University, did offer her a retention raise but she turned that money down to go to Oregon.
Of course, even a two penny per dollar gender pay gap is two pennies too much. However, it is far from clear that even this small gap can be attributed to gender discrimination. As the Freyd lawsuit illustrates, many factors go into a person's salary that won’t be picked up even by surveys that ask about a person's profession, hours worked, etc.
Finally some balance to this gender pay gap myth. Thank you for Forbes.
I worked at a manufacturing plant when I was in college. The rate for a “secretary” was a R10. I applied for and got an assembly job that paid R19 and to this day, I remember another woman stating I didn’t deserve that job. Fk you Beth, where ever you are.
I agree with this article. Some of my friends chose professions which typically pay lower salaries regardless of gender. I keep reminding them they chose their career bc the “love” what they do.
In my life I have PAID why more than any group of women have PAID for me. Close the pay gap and women pay their fair share.
Gender pay gap IS a myth.
Your mansplaining is really missing the whole point. The reason women go into less prominent positions is because men are being pushed there by other men, and women are brushed off as “not good enough” as an excuse, artificially creating dead end situations in women’s careers.
In short the author says it's because women aren't as ambitious, they don't ask for raises, they aim for lower paying jobs. Saying it's not that it's because they're not men, it's because they're women, just look at the adjusted numbers. This is journalistic sexism.
Very offensive tweet. The concept of gender is a construct of the crooked mainstream media, who are always pulling sneaky tricks to divide us in any way they can. offensive fakenews smh