American Federation of Teachers Calls for Eliminating Gender Gap in Faculty Hiring and Pay

Women in Academia Report
Posted on Jun 04, 2011

The American Federation of Teachers has published a new report addressing gender inequity in higher education. The report entitled, Promoting Gender Diversity in the Faculty: What Higher Education Unions Can Do, states that while women are 57 percent of all enrollments in higher education, they make up only 40 percent of the full-time faculty. And the AFT report provides data on the gender gap in pay, in general and for specific academic disciplines.

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