September 8, 2000

Gender-Equity Issues at California State U.

To the Editor:

Your July 21 article "Faculty Union at California State U. Charges That Merit-Pay System Favors Men" presents conflicting statistics on the merit-pay system. ... I will try to shed some light on these statistics; however, my primary thesis is that the failure of Cal State to hire new, tenure-track faculty members constitutes the real discrimination against women.

The system's administration states that women received average merit increases of 2.44 percent, and

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