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coalition manager
Reports to: Evelyn Murphy, The WAGE Project
Location: Massachusetts
Start Date: Immediately
Wage Equity Now Coalition (WEN)
WEN was initially formed by Jackie Jenkins Scott, Evelyn Murphy, and Andrea Silbert to support and promote passage of The Transparency Act of 2021 which was introduced by Senator Paul Feeney and Representatives Liz Miranda and Liz Malia. The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) and Amplify Latinx have since joined the coalition as lead partners.
This bill is a foundational step for eliminating racial and gender wage gaps in Massachusetts. It requires all employers –private, non-profit and governmental –with 100 or more employees to report the average wages by gender, race, and ethnicity for the entire organization, and also to report the proportions of the top 10 earners by race, gender, and ethnicity. Most critically, it requires release of this data to the public at the institutional level to provide for comparative a
Report: Men still hold bulk of top-paying higher ed jobs
A solitary person walks across the common of the Northeast Residential Area at the University of Massachusetts on Monday morning, Feb. 8, 2021. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
By MATT MURPHY
Eight of the country’s leading institutions of higher education have no women among their top earners on campus, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to a new study published by the Eos Foundation.
The report, which focused on the pay gaps that exist by gender at colleges and universities around the country, found that fewer than one quarter, or 24%, of the most highly compensated employees at top research universities are women.
Matt Murphy
State House News Service
BOSTON Eight of the country s leading institutions of higher education have no women among their top earners on campus, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to a new study published by the Eos Foundation.
The report, which focused on the pay gaps that exist by gender at colleges and universities around the country, found that fewer than one quarter, or 24%, of the most highly compensated employees at top research universities are women.
The problem was even more evident among women of color, who make up just 2.5% of the top 10 earners on each campus.
Percent of women among top earners at 130 top research universities
Women are 60 percent of all professionals in higher education and have been earning the majority of master’s and doctoral degrees for decades. Yet women represent just 24 percent of the highest-paid faculty members and administrators at 130 leading research universities, according to a new study from Eos Foundation’s Women’s Power Gap Initiative, the American Association of University Women and the WAGE project. Women of color are even more grossly underrepresented, at just 2 percent of top core academic earners.
No Excuses
“Schools struggling to ‘find’ women and people of color for leadership positions should deeply examine their institutional cultures and seek to systematically change their hiring, retention and advancement practices to more quickly and urgently close the power and pay gaps,” the report says.