Women administrators advance in salary.

We recently looked longitudinally at the changes in salary equity for women and men over the 12 years that WIHE has published salary data collected by the CUPA-HR group.

Since 1995, WIHE has created a chart that lists median salaries by gender for selected job titles that women are likely to fill, and separated by the type of school: doctorate, master's, baccalaureate and two-year.

Ignoring the data for the first and last years because it is not comparable to that for intervening years, the chart indicates that overall women have made some small progress in attaining gender equity in median salaries from 1995 to 2005, increasing from 14.2% to 20.0%.

In 1995-1996, of the 211 job titles listed, women earned higher median salaries in only 14.2% of them. The percentage actually decreased for the next three years before reaching 14.8% in the year 1990-2000.

Since then, the number of job titles in which women's salaries have exceeded men's has increased in every year except between 2003 and 2004, when it remained a constant 20%. This year when CUPA-HR began to include data on the job titles of assistant and associate dean--in which women exceeded men in 10 of the 15 disciplines--the percentage of women earning a higher median salary than men jumped to 24.5%

 
Gender Comparison of Median Administrator ...