More than 150 female faculty members at Wilfrid Laurier University are receiving raises following a review which found that, on average, women were making lower salaries than men in the same positions.
The raises, which will be retroactive to July 2016, will be given to 119 associate professors and 33 full professors. The associate professors will receive salaries increases of three per cent, while the full professors will see their pay increased by 3.9 per cent.
School officials say they did not find any gender-based disparity in pay among assistant professors and librarians.
“Gender equity with respect to wages and terms and conditions of employment is an important principle that Laurier must actively support,” Deborah MacLatchy, the school’s incoming president, said in a news release.
Laurier is the latest of several Canadian schools to find gender wage gaps in their halls and take issue to bring the salaries of female employees more in line with those of male employees.
Last summer, the University of Waterloo announced that more than 300 of its female faculty members would receive raises of nearly $3,000 apiece.
Laurier’s review took into account factors such as men typically being more likely to hold senior and higher-paying positions.
Even after adjusting for those factors, the school said, it was clear that “historic and systemic issues” had led to a gender wage gap.
