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Publication Date: 1979
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Salary Equity: Detecting Sex Bias in Salaries among College and University Professors.
Pezzullo, Thomas R., Ed.; Brittingham, Barbara E., Ed.
Sex bias in college faculty salaries is examined in this book. Part 1 contains the following four chapters on the use of multiple regression to detect and estimate sex bias in salaries: "The Assessment of Salary Equity: A Methodology, Alternatives, and a Dilemma" (Thomas R. Pezzullo and Barbara E. Brittingham); "Detection of Sex-Related Salary Discrimination: A Demonstration Using Constructed Data" (P. Kenneth Morse); "Salary Differences among University Faculty and Their Implications" (Barbara Hauben Tuckman); and "A Generalized Multiple Regression Model for Predicting College Faculty Salaries and Estimating Sex Bias" (Glenworth A. Ramsay). Part 2 presents five case studies in salary equity: "Effects of Statewide Salary Equity Provisions on Institutional Salary Policies: A Regression Analysis" (Mary P. Martin and John D. Williams); "Equal Pay for Equal Qualifications? A Model for Determining Race or Sex Discrimination in Salaries" (John A. Muffo, Larry Braskamp, and Ira W. Langston, IV); "A Method for Monitoring University Faculty Salary Policies for Sex Bias" (Larry O. Hunter); "Salary Inequities and Differences: One College's Attempt at Identification and Adjustment" (Robert E. Wall); and "A Multiple Regression Model for Predicting Men's and Women's Salaries in Higher Education" (Barbara Brittingham et al.). In Part 3 some dissenting views on multiple regression and statistical analysis are presented: "Procedures for the Detection and Correction of Salary Inequities" (Michael H. Birnbaum) and "The Idiosyncratic Determiners of Salary Differences" (John V. Long). A faculty salary interview questionnaire is appended. (PHR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Evaluation Methods, Females, Higher Education, Justice, Models, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictor Variables, Salary Wage Differentials, Sex Discrimination, Sex Fairness, Teacher Salaries
Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA 02173
Publication Type: Books; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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