By: Inside Baseball

Inside Baseball
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 04:04:54 +0000

The old boys network is alive and well in many a department, including several for which I’ve taught. Female profs doing the work they’re supposed to, publishing/teaching/committees/supervising student research, and yet not earning the same as their male counterparts. Nor, I might add, getting the same level of respect as their colleagues. I’ve watched too many female profs leave OSU for better, more equitable workplaces to think the pay gap and/or respect gap is anything but true.

As for the question of why, well, it has been a longstanding problem that was exacerbated by the two tenures of the bow-tied marvel. It was pretty well known among the faculty that the now departed & not lamented Mr. Gee had serious problems with women in positions of power and authority. His increase of senior administrative staff by 30% featured very few women, a standard the university continues to meet (it also continues his appalling pay scale for those positions, which started with his raising their salaries by 63% back in 2011 and which continues to balloon out of control).

Pay equity is a problem throughout the university, both at a gender level and at a top v. bottom level. There’s a reason why Atlantic Monthly called OSU the worst university in the US in terms of income inequality.