Gendered Universities and the Wage Gap: Case Study of a Pay Equity Audit in an Australian University

Currie, Jan; Hill, Beverley

doi:10.1057/hep.2012.19

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“…Both the Probert et al. (1998) survey and the Currie and Hill (2013) study revealed that allowances were more common in engineering and business disciplines.…”

Section: Pay Loadings Meritocracies and Regulation Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Canadian research on one public, unionised university showed that men were three times more likely than women to get a loading, after controlling for various factors such as field of specialisation and rank (Doucet et al., 2008) – although amongst men and women who received allowances, there was no gender difference in amount (Doucet et al., 2012). Currie and Hill’s (2013) analysis of an institutional pay equity audit conducted in 2008 in one Australian university indicated that, of the five discretionary allowances they identified, the attraction/retention loading ‘constituted three-quarters of the discretionary allowances paid to employees’ (p.75). While the minimum allowance offered to academic women and men was often similar, there was a mean difference of $8744 in favour of men.…”

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Academic pay loadings and gender in Australian universities

Bailey

Peetz

Strachan

et al. 2016

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Academic pay loadings are one potential mechanism of gender pay disparity in universities. Drawing on a large-scale survey of Australian academics with over 8000 respondents, we analyse how ‘discretionary’ and higher duties loadings (or bonuses) are distributed between men and women, and investigate the reasons for such distributions. Investigating both incidence and quantum, we find that discretionary loadings are particularly susceptible to gender influences. We explain this finding in terms of the concepts of regulation distance and the meritocracy paradox. The findings have implications for the design of loadings schemes in universities, and, by implication, in other kinds of organisations that provide loadings.

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“…Both the Probert et al. (1998) survey and the Currie and Hill (2013) study revealed that allowances were more common in engineering and business disciplines.…”

Section: Pay Loadings Meritocracies and Regulation Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pay Loadings Meritocracies and Regulation Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

Academic pay loadings and gender in Australian universities

Bailey

Peetz

Strachan

et al. 2016

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Female enrolment in Australian universities rose in response to higher returns from investments in tertiary education; technological breakthroughs in household production; changing social norms about women's roles; and higher divorce rates, which encouraged women to invest more time and money in a career (Booth and Joo Kee :255). The “gendered” nature of Australian universities remained apparent until recently, and primarily in the pay gap between female and male academics (Currie and Hill ); the gendered university presented itself as a “vertical segregation of gender inequities” in rewards such as allowances to men in addition to wages (Bailey et al. :661) and in matters of academic promotions and mobility (Kahn :408).…”

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“Academic War” over Geography? Death of Human Geography at the Australian National University

Lahiri‐Dutt

2018

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This article analyses how neoliberal economic policies decide what particular aspects of knowledge are valuable and what are not, and who might be the true holder of that knowledge within the tertiary education system. This assessment leads to some disciplines being seen as less valuable to the system. It argues that the more recent “academic wars” in geography are over the very concept of the university and its role in the contemporary society, what comprises useful knowledge, and who comprises the authoritative figure in the production and distribution of that knowledge. Gender of the geographer therefore becomes a crucial element that determines “authority” in the production of geographical knowledge. To substantiate this argument, the paper takes up the important task of analysing the complex career trajectory of geography within the Australian National University (ANU), the department that was gradually reduced leading eventually to its unfortunate closure in 2009.

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“…(Australian Goverment, 2015). En términos salariales, un estudio llevado a cabo en la Universidad de Western Australia reveló la existencia de una brecha salarial de un 15% entre facultad masculina y femenina (Currie y Hill, 2013 (2015:139-141), se ha triplicado el número del profesorado, el aumento no ha dado paso a la paridad y el número de profesoras no supera el 38.7%.…”

Section: La Situación De Las Docentes Universitariasunclassified

Invisibilidad y desigualdad. La política académica y las mujeres docentes en la Universidad

Figueroa

2016

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ResumenSe analiza la poca representatividad de las mujeres en la academia y las desigualdades que enfrentan para obtener ascensos, mejoras salariales y ascender a puestos altos de poder en las instituciones de enseñanza superior. Contrastan estos hechos con la proliferación de estudios de género en las universidades y la feminización del estudiantado universitario. Se presentan los factores causales más importantes de la política académica como: la cultura laboral universitaria, las estructuras académicas, la doble jornada laboral, los prejuicios y los estilos de administración. Concluye que las universidades no podrán constituirse en agente de cambio social si no modifican sus políticas y estructuras de poder patriarcal que condenan a las docentes a la desigualdad. Concluye proponiendo alternativas para solucionar la problemática.Palabras Clave: Género, mujeres, educación superior. AbstractThis paper analyzes the women's underrepresentation in faculty positions in the universities; the difficulties they have to get tenure-track, salary increases, and the ascension to higher administrative levels. It contrasts these facts with the increase of academics gender studies researchers and the worldwide feminization trend in higher education. The paper introduces experts' findings that assert that they are caused by the departmental climate, academic male structure, the motherhood and domestic responsibilities of women, and management styles. It concludes that the university cannot be considered as a social change agent unless it modifies the patriarchal practices and power structures that perpetuate women's inequality in higher education and presents the most recommended alternatives to solve this problem.

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Gendered Universities and the Wage Gap: Case Study of a Pay Equity Audit in an Australian University

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Academic pay loadings and gender in Australian universities

Academic pay loadings and gender in Australian universities

“Academic War” over Geography? Death of Human Geography at the Australian National University

Invisibilidad y desigualdad. La política académica y las mujeres docentes en la Universidad

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