<p>Princeton University was the only Ivy League school to reduce its gender pay gap for professors in the past year, according to a study by the American Association of University Professors. </p>
<p>President Dr. Shirley Tilghman also has increased the number of women faculty with tenure. The school pays male professors an average of $152,400 per year, which is 5.5% more than women. But that's an improvement from last year, when the gap was 8.5%. </p>
<p>"That's what you get when you have a woman president," remarked Dr. Martha West, a law professor at University of California at Davis. </p>
<p>Female professors at the other seven Ivy League schools found their pay gap to be widening. The biggest gap was at Dartmouth College NH, where the difference was 22%. </p>
<p>Stanford University narrowed its gender pay gap for faculty during the last year from 5.9% to 2.2%. </p>
<p>Women's college Wellesley College MA pays its female and male faculty virtually the same. Women earned an average of $119,400 and men received $119,700. </p>
<p>Info is from a report by The American Association of University Professors, which has been gathering school salary data since the 1930s, according to the Web site Bloomberg.com on April 29, 2005.</p>
<p>I still don't understand why there is a pay gap in the first place. What's the difference if a woman teaches instead of a man? Or a man instead of a woman?</p>
<p>Glad to see these responses from people your age! The world is changing. A lot of this has to do with the tenure system. </p>
<p>When I was in college and graduate school, I only had 2 women professors in 8 years of study. Imagine! And some of my male professors still have tenure...</p>
<p>aparent5: could it be also due to age demographics and/or choice of fields? Starting salaries of different professions vary widely and that gap may remain throughout the careers.</p>
<p>I was a literature major and still my profs were almost all male. And the brouhaha that arose after Larry Summers's comments on women in science reiterated that women have been discriminated against in the sciences for years. Things are better now, but it takes time for academia to catch up. Looking at Princeton's administration and profs, there are so many women it's amazing. My d had 4 women profs first semester! More than I had in all of college and grad school!</p>