Salary Equity: A Case Study

Salary equity has been a major employment issue in academia for the last decade. This case study describes a successful library salary equity compaign in the context of a general salary equity program for all women and minority faculty at a state university. Establishing a method for determining gender-based salary inequities proved to be more complex for librarians than for the general faculty. Finally, a male counterpart study similar to the method used for the teaching faculty was develop. The six-year effort involved several committees, turn-over among administrators, and, eventually, a higher level of awareness of and attention to women and minority issues at the university