MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- An analysis of public records seems to indicate a significant pay disparity between male and female professors teaching at some of Tennessee's largest public universities.
WMOT News reporting partners at Sidelines Newspaper and Professor Ken Blake teamed up to crunch salary numbers for six universities in the Tennessee Board of Regents system.
Sidelines Editor Sarah Grace Taylor says they’ve found what appears to be a pay disparity between male and female faculty.
“Women are getting paid 84 percent of what their male colleagues are getting paid. At MTSU it’s 88 percent. At both the TBR and MTSU level female professors are far less likely to be full professors than their male colleagues.”
Taylor cautions that variables in the data make it hard to pinpoint an exact cause for the disparity.
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