Full professor gender pay gap remains Ivy League’s largest Female full professors at Dartmouth make, on average, 82.8 percent of what their male colleagues earn, giving Dartmouth the largest gap in annual wages for full professors in the Ivy League. On average, male tenured professors at the College make $182,500 while their female counterparts make $151,100, according to the 2013-14 American Association of University Professors Faculty Salary Survey published last week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. This statistic shoes a wider gap than in 2012-2013, when female full professors were paid 83.2 percent of what their male colleagues earned.

 There Is a Gender Pay Gap in Academe, but It May Not Be the Gap That Matters The gender-based wage gap has been in the spotlight lately, as the Obama administration used a pair of executive orders this week to remind the country that women make 77 cents for every dollar men make, according to oft-quoted (and sometimes criticized) data from the Census Bureau. New data released this week by the American Association of University Professors show there is a gender wage gap in academe, too. However, the bigger problem in academe—as in society at large—may not be a wage gap, but a representation gap.

Fewer Women at Higher Ranks At doctoral universities, where the difference between male and female pay is the largest, women across all faculty ranks make about 78 cents on the dollar, nearly the national average ratio for all women. But, as critiques of the 77-cents-on-the-dollar data point will tell you, that doesn’t tell the whole story. If you compare men and women at the same faculty rank, female full professors make 90 percent of what their male colleagues make. For associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers, and instructors, the numbers are 93 percent, 91 percent, 88 percent, and 96 percent, respectively. But there are about three female instructors for every two male instructors at doctoral universities. That means there are more than three times as many male full professors at doctoral universities as there are women in those ranks.

Sallie Krawcheck’s Advice for New Grads on Conquering the Gender Pay Gap She says that women should ask for more raises and take advantage of professional connections, even as she acknowledges that women are losing ground in financial services and other fields.

Elizabeth Warren: Why Equal Pay Is Worth Fighting For I honestly can’t believe that we’re still arguing over equal pay in 2014. When I started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn’t hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. Women have made incredible strides since then. But 40 years later, we’re still debating equal pay for equal work. Today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans.

Without arbitration fairness, paycheck fairness may be an empty promise  There is a way to protect the gains we’ve made—and any more that are yet to come.  It’s called the Arbitration Fairness Act, and it would ban forced arbitration in consumer, employment, and civil rights disputes.

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When Being Pregnant Also Means Being Out Of A Job Thirty-six years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, employers still have very different interpretations of what they’re required to do to accommodate expectant mothers.

Lawsuit: Forced on maternity leave, forced to return before baby is due “What’s outrageous about this case,” said Caselman’s attorney Sharon Terman of the Legal Aid Society, “is that pregnant workers are being forced out of their jobs when they’re perfectly able to keep working, and it’s happening at a time when they most need their income, when they are growing their family.”

It’s No Longer Legal to Sexually Harass Unpaid Interns in New York City  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law broadening the language of the city’s existing human rights legislation to include unpaid workers, giving them the right to sue their employers. The measure says that, at least where harassment and discrimination are concerned, whether or not you receive wages has no bearing on whether you are “employed.”

There seems to be a sea change happening in how unsalaried labor fits into the American workplace. The New York Times disclosed last month that it would pay academic interns minimum wage. (In December,Slate announced that it had started paying interns.) New York University has tightened its guidelines for employers who wish to hire student interns, and the Ivy League colleges have stopped granting academic credits to unpaid interns altogether. “For most corporations, we’re heading in the direction of internships being paid positions eventually,” career coach Allison Cheston told Bloomberg Businessweek.