Economic equity news is a weekly round-up of articles by Donna Seymour of AAUW-NYS that features our core values of poverty solutions, opportunity and access, workplace fairness, healthy lives, equal pay and representation at all tables. Sign up for our mailing list to receive this directly to your inbox.
- As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops via The New York Times
A new study from researchers at Cornell University found that the difference between the occupations and industries in which men and women work has recently become the single largest cause of the gender pay gap, accounting for more than half of it. In fact, another study shows, when women enter fields in greater numbers, pay declines — for the very same jobs that more men were doing before.
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research says that despite government measures like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the gender wage gap actually grew from 2014 and 2015—particularly for Black women.
- Higher raises in private colleges, stubborn pay gaps via The Chronicle of Higher Education
The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources’ annual salary survey finds slowly growing median salaries at both private and public colleges for the 2015-16 academic year and persistent pay gaps between male and female administrators. In 12 out of 15 executive positions surveyed, women make less than men, including the most egregious example — the chief financial officer position, where female CFOs make just 77% of what men in the same positions do.
The number-one ranked tennis player in the world — Novak Djokovic — sparked controversy over the weekend when he questioned whether women in tennis deserve equal pay, reports the BBC. Djokovic was speaking after winning the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday.
- The Jobs With the Highest Gender Pay Gaps via Bloomberg
A report released on Wednesday by salary website Glassdoor found that that women are paid, on average, five cents less on the dollar than men in the same position who are equally qualified and work at the same company. The study, which analyzed 505,000 salary reports from full-time employees in 25 industries, adjusted for such factors as age, experience, company, state, industry, level of education, and job title. Female computer scientists endure the largest gap, at 28 percent.
Donna Seymour, who hails from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association University Women), she is also a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.