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Thursday, Mar. 6
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus
Ministries
About: A free vegetarian meal on
Thursdays at the ECM.
What: Unmanned Drones: Soldiers without Uniforms
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where:Dole Institute of Politics About: The first installment in a two-program series on drones. The technology of drones and ethical questions involving their use will be discussed. Part two in the series will take place on March 11.
Friday, Mar. 7
What: Undergraduate Research Office Hours
When: 10 a.m. to noon
Where: Strong Hall, Room 151
About: Stop by the office to ask about getting started in research as an undergraduate student.
Saturday, Mar. 8
What: KU Jazz Festival Concerts When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium About: Day one of the KU Jazz Festi val. Performances on both March 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m.
What: Art Cart: Marvelous Miniatures
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: Open to the public, this month's Art Cart event will have participants look closely at small-scale works of art. They then will create their own miniature piece.
The event also meets on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Sunday, Mar. 9
What: CREES Spring Festival
When: 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Carnegie Library, 200 W.
9th St.
About: The Center for Russian, East
European and Eurasian Studies
presents their Spring Festival.
CAMPUS
Gender pay gap stems from social norms
MADDIE FARBER news@kansan.com
During President Barack Obama's 2014 State of the Union address, the president said that women make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.
At the University, there is an average difference of $9,000 between the salaries of male and female professors, according to the 2012-2013 American Association of University Professors Faculty Compensation Survey.
"Equal pay for equal work is not the issue," Albrecht said. "We would be better off to talk about another concept, which
At first glance, it seems to present an issue of pay inequality. But according to Sandra Albrecht, an associate professor of sociology who specializes in the areas of sociology of work and gender, the difference doesn't necessarily imply pay discrimination; it may instead reflect a different concern.
is equal pay for equal value."
Albrecht explained that the division in America's labor force not only stems from long-standing social constructions of gender roles, but also ties into differences in how professional labor is valued. She said that if the labor force were less divided as a result of social norms, it could push women into higher-paying jobs. This would make some of the problems with devaluation and unequal numbers disappear.
"I don't think we have a pay issue between males and females at the University" Albrecht said. "The real problem is that we often devalue the jobs that women have historically gone into. When women break out of those jobs and go into historically male positions, the salary of that occupation goes down. It is a reflection of the general devaluing of women in our society."
University administration
says pay inequality is not a problem here.
"There are no inequities based upon race or gender," said Mary Lee Hummert, vice provost for faculty development. "The University as a whole has a non-discrimination policy. Disciplinary differences affect
"We are very conscious of the need to ensure pay equality."
MARY LEE HUMMERT Vice provost for faculty development
salaries. Women and men at comparable levels in their career are paid similarly."
Hummert said this does not explain why there is a difference between salaries of male and female professors.
A salary increase for individual professors is based on titles such as distinguished,
associate or full professor, Hummert explained. Merit of every faculty member is evaluated annually within each department at the University, which is based on research teaching and service.
However, these are only some of the factors that account for the differences.
"Part of what we see in the data shows the relative number between men and women," Hummert said. "It reflects the discipline between higher and lower salaries. Overall, men are overrepresented in higher paying parts of the University, and women are overrepresented in lower paying parts of the University." According to 2012 data from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, only 14.7 percent of professors in the engineering department are women, compared to the 40 percent of female professors in the department of social and behavioral sciences.
Hummert
University is hiring to increase the number of female faculty.
"If we are successful at attaining more women faculty across the University, the salary differences will become less noticeable and will work towards equalizing the [pay] differences between men and women," Hummert said.
Preliminary data collected by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning continues to show differences between men and women at the University. As of 2014, there were 38 newly hired men, compared to 28 newly hired women.
"We are very conscious of the need to ensure pay equality." Hummert said. "We study faculty salaries and are looking at all of the staff and job classifications. We look nationally at what salaries are and bring people who seem underpaid up to a reasonable salary."
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