What has YUFA done to obtain equitable pay for women?
Some 60% of the raises negotiated for YUFA members from 1996-2001 were used to address ‘pay equity’ and ‘salary adjustment’ issues. ‘Pay equity’ gave women faculty $1.1 million to reduce the gap between them and male faculty of comparable age and professional experience. ‘Salary adjustment’ poured about $4.1 million into raises for women and men based primarily on professional experience, but also on how the salary freeze of 1993-95 affected lifetime earnings. YUFA’s efforts to secure equitable pay for women faculty continue in three ways: • Recapture agreement – As women faculty who received pay equity raises retire or leave York, their raises are redistributed among remaining women who were eligible. The last distribution occurred in Fall 2007. • Librarians’ pay equity review – Every three years, all librarians’ salaries are reviewed to determine whether they still comply with the librarian pay equity settlement. If not, individual librarians receive additional raises. (Unlike facult
